Teach geometry in Minecraft

Following on the success of my teaching basic logic circuits in Minecraft, my son wanted another lesson, so I went with geometry.

Some shapes are going to look awkward in Minecraft until you pull back., and so I thought I’d try geometry, teaching shapes,perimeter and area.   Here’s the lesson plan I put together.

For each of the following two dimensional shapes, build them on a flat surface in minecraft out of any kind of block.  Compute the perimeter and the area for each of these shapes.

• Square (no side larger than 5 units)
• Triangle (no side larger than 10 units)
• Rectange (no side larger than 10 units)
• Pentagon (no side larger than 10 units)
• Diamond (no side larger than 10 units)
• Hexagon (no side larger than 5 units)
• Trapezium (no side larger than 10 units)
• Octagon (no side larger than 10 units)
• Heptagon (no side larger than 5 units)
• Cross (no side larger than 5 units)
• Parallelogram (no side larger than 10 units)