School Math Center

At Tesseract we created a math world that allows our students to go in and practice their math concepts.  

• We have a horse track and an arena where we place math questions in the info blocks for students to complete.  
• In "The Claw" we have a water parkour area with water, a maze, and an open area to build something new.  We are currently playing with a tree house parkour idea.  
• There is also a workspace area where students can practice their math in an individual area.  
• Our Iron Bowl are two stadiums where students divide into teams, we spawn an Iron Golem, and they try to knock it into the lava.  Think Minecraft soccer.  
• Our Turtle Arena has three areas.  
  • One where students can learn how to use the turtle and explore in an open space.  
  • Another area is made specifically where a shape is built and the students program their turtles in their workspace to recreate that shape.  
  • The last is an individual workspace where students progress through 7 different areas practicing their turtle skills such as turning on lamps, creating a bridge, navigating a maze, and recreating a structure in the final space that the teacher chooses to create(on the bedrock).  Build your structure in th last space that you want students to recreate.
• There is a cake making area that we use to practice multiplication facts with the ingredients.  
• Our last area was designed by one of our students to practice multiplication facts.  Students stand in one of the stalls and use a turtle to move up and down to the answer after the math fact is asked(we have the multiplication facts for 6,7,8,and 9 shown but it can be modified for anything).  
• There is also a lot of room to add more ideas that meet the needs of your class.  We are thinking of adding a graphing area and a farm in the future.

We give a lot of credit to Shane Asselstine's contributions to Minecraft EDU for inspring our Math World and showing us how to incorporate Minecraft into math.