Teaching with Minecraft - Part Four, Teaching Math

And I am back -- Teaching with Minecraft and this time I want to look at teaching math with Minecraft. I had mentioned that one could teach ratios and proportions with Minecraft -- asking students to create 'to scale' buildings when they are creating their historical replicas. But there are other applications, surely, after all, Minecraft uses blocks -- much the way that Singapore, Math-U-See and Miquon maths do. So I went hunting and the list below is the fruit of my mining. I hope that you will find it useful:

1) This first is a You-tube video: Maths in Minecraft (Area, Perimeter, Volume)

This particular You-tube video comes from a blogger who has created a world called 'Mathlandia'.  He writes a Minecraft Educational blog:

2) Minecraft Elfie

3) A similar project for teaching perimeter and area uses both legos and minecraft can be found Here (Actually I found this amusing as my own children came up with this particular lesson all on their own one rainy day when the power went out. They created their Minecraft world in legos and when the power came back up, they took their careful lego constructions to the computer and 'rebuilt' them, brick by brick into Minecraft'...)

4)Another Area and Perimeter lesson plan

5)General ideas for Minecraft blocks math

6)Minecraft Maths

7)Minecraft and Math - STEM  -- again, a list of suggested uses for Minecraft in math applications

8)MInecraft in Education -- More than just Maths, of course

9)Examples of Minecraft Math Projects

10) Minecraft Math Youtube -- calculus garden

11)Scrib: minecraft-problem-posing-subtraction-core-questions

      12)Scrib: Minecraft-Problem-Posing-Subtraction-Teacher-Copy -- please note, there is a fee to download from Scrib.

13)Minecraft Math

(And in an update to the previous 'Teaching with Minecraft' post, on programming, I found the following link: SriptCraftJC which will allow simple Minecraft programming in JavaScript)

Actually, I had a very exciting idea for some lesson plans of my own while reading through these articles. I  am going to work them up and try them out and if they pass muster, I will post them as well. In the mean while.... Happy crafting!