Detailed Product Description

A six-sided die with the units milligram, centigram, decigram, gram, kilogram and metric ton.

Ideas for Use

Have a student roll a dice and state the units shown on the top, such as centigrams. Then the student can state how that relates to the basic unit. “One hundred centigrams equals one liter.” Or the student can give the next smaller and larger unit--milligram, centigram, decigram (or gram).

For more of a challenge, combine a number die with the unit die. Then the student must convert to the next higher or lower unit. For example if a student rolls a twenty and centigrams, he should say, “Twenty centigrams is two hundred milligrams.” Or he may say, “Twenty centigrams is two decigrams or one fifth of a gram.”