Here is a nice little challenge for year 2 children which will help both with adding three small numbers and working in a well organised, methodical way. The challenge is to find as many different ways that a total of 12 can be made with three dice. It should be decided at the start that the order of the three dice does not matter ie 6 and 5 and 1 is the same as 1 and 5 and 6. Try to use three similar dice . There are surprisingly few answers to this challenge so it is ideal for asking questions such as: 'How do you know you have all the possible answers? Encourage recording results in a logical way, perhaps starting with all the possible combinations with a 6 in, then 5 etc. Go to Totals with three dice