| Article ID: | iaor20162838 |
| Volume: | 38 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Start Page Number: | 98 |
| End Page Number: | 101 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2016 |
| Journal: | Teaching Statistics |
| Authors: | Martin David, Foster Colin |
| Keywords: | statistics: general |
We analyse the ‘two‐dice horse race’ task often used in lower secondary school, in which two ordinary dice are thrown repeatedly and each time the sum of the scores determines which horse (numbered 1 to 12) moves forwards one space.