division farms
Division Farms is a Minecraft activity map designed by a teacher (not me!). I got it as part of the MinecraftEdu resources, which you can see here. In this world, students will be in small groups, doing division while farming Minecraft items.
Here is the sequence of events for the Division Farms activity:
1. If you put the 20 pumpkins into 4 equal rows, how many pumpkins are in each row?
2. If you want to arrange the roses into evenly divided rows and columns, what are the 3 ways you could do it?
3. If 9 cows produced 27 buckets of milk, how many buckets would 12 cows make?
In the "Cocoa Beans, Wheat" area, do the activities in that order. Answer the questions below in your Journal.
4. How many units of wheat did you harvest? How many cocoa beans?
5. How many people are in your group?
6. If you split the crops equally, how many wheat and how many cocoa beans would each person get?
7. What is the recipe for cookies?
8. Write an algebraic formula for the recipe for cookies, where x=wheat, y=cocoa beans, and z=cookies.
Here is the sequence of events for the Division Farms activity:
- Get your Journal from one of the chests to the right of the spawn point.
- Walk down the path until you see the signs for either "Pumpkins, Roses, Cows" or "Cocoa Beans, Wheat" and go toward the one directed by teacher.
- Find the blue block with your group number on it. Enter the area for your group by finding the fence gate, marked with torches. Find the different activities by clicking on the blue "i" blocks.
1. If you put the 20 pumpkins into 4 equal rows, how many pumpkins are in each row?
2. If you want to arrange the roses into evenly divided rows and columns, what are the 3 ways you could do it?
3. If 9 cows produced 27 buckets of milk, how many buckets would 12 cows make?
In the "Cocoa Beans, Wheat" area, do the activities in that order. Answer the questions below in your Journal.
4. How many units of wheat did you harvest? How many cocoa beans?
5. How many people are in your group?
6. If you split the crops equally, how many wheat and how many cocoa beans would each person get?
7. What is the recipe for cookies?
8. Write an algebraic formula for the recipe for cookies, where x=wheat, y=cocoa beans, and z=cookies.
farming info
http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Farming_(disambiguation) - Links to tutorials on all crops
http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Tutorials/Crop_farming
http://www.minecraft101.net/g/farming.html
http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/minecraft-discussion/survival-mode/278845-list-of-automatic-farms-tutorial-links
http://acisace.hubpages.com/hub/Minecraft-Guide-Making-an-automatic-Wheat-farm
http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Tutorials/Crop_farming
http://www.minecraft101.net/g/farming.html
http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/minecraft-discussion/survival-mode/278845-list-of-automatic-farms-tutorial-links
http://acisace.hubpages.com/hub/Minecraft-Guide-Making-an-automatic-Wheat-farm
extension worksheets
These worksheets have word problems that are more or less exactly the same as the ones you see above, only these can be done without any access to (or knowledge of) Minecraft. Email me if you want the answer sheet!