D.G. the 10-sided dice teaches students about using examples by presenting his "family" of colorful, multi-sided dice. This slideshow includes animation which shows up when downloading the powerpoint presentation file from https://visualisingideas.edublogs.org/2020/02/08/usingexamples/

1. Why Didn’t You Mention
By: Naomi Ganin Epstein
Me?

2. I’m D.G.
I’m an angry dice!
Hey!
Are you there?
Come closer!

3. What? What did you say?
You didn’t
know I was
a kind of a
dice?!
You aren’t
the only
one…
That’s why I’m angry!

4. My real name is
Decagon,
because I have 10
sides. I don’t
like that
boring
name!!
Please call
me D.G.

5. You see, everyone knows my famous grandparents, regular
dice with six sides.
grandfather grandmother
But they forget about me!!!

6. Decagon!
Why did you mention your grandparents?
What are you talking about?
Call me D.G. ,PLEASE!

7. I just said that you were examples of…
… regular dice with six sides.
You
are famous –
everyone knows
you!

8. Come and meet some of my brothers and sisters.
We’re all examples of modern dice with many sides.

9. For example, My twin
brothers Ishi (Icosahedron)
and Hedi have 20 sides!
THEY ARE COOL!
Time to go
down the hole
D.G.! Ha ha ha!
HELP!!!!

10. Psst. I’m over here!
We are the best
examples of
modern dice, you
don’t need to meet
anyone else!
Goodbye!

11. Good, they are gone!
… my baby sister, Tetra, (tetrahedron)
has only 4 sides!
I’m not
the
smallest
dice!
Tetra
There are many kinds of small
dice too. For example…
My brothers are
so big!
It’s hard to be smaller.

12. D.G. – Are you
bothering your baby
sister?! Why did you
mention her?
Oh,
Mom!

13. But
who
will be
nice to
me?
Tetra
“Oh Mom, I just said Tetra was an example of a dice with less than
6 sides!
I was nice to the baby!!

14. Will YOU choose regular dice next time you want to play a game?
Or…
Will
you
play
with
me?

15. All the photos used were taken
by Naomi Ganin Epstein
Additional educational material can be found at
https://visualisingideas.edublogs.org/
With thanks to Omri Epstein for use of the dice and props seen in this slideshow.