Jill Keppeler - The Unofficial Guide to Using Math in Minecraft®

Published in 2020 by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. 29 East 21st Street, New York, NY 10010 Copyright 2020 by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer. First Edition Editor: Greg Roza Book Design: Rachel Rising Illustrator: Matas Lapege Photo Credits: Cover, pp.. Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Keppeler, Jill.

Title: The unofficial guide to using math in Minecraft / Jill Keppeler. Description: New York: PowerKids Press, 2020. | Series: STEM projects in Minecraft | Includes glossary and index. Identifiers: ISBN 9781725310667 (pbk.) | ISBN 9781725310681 (library bound) | ISBN 9781725310674 (6 pack) Subjects: LCSH: Mathematics--Juvenile literature. | Minecraft (Game) -- Juvenile literature. Classification: LCC GV1469.M55 K47 2020 | DDC 794.8--dc23 Minecraft is a trademark of Mojang (a game development studio owned by Microsoft Technology Corporation), and its use in this book does not imply a recommendation or endorsement of this title by Mojang or Microsoft.

Manufactured in the United States of America CPSIA Compliance Information: Batch #CWPK20. For Further Information contact Rosen Publishing, New York, New York at 1-800-237-9932. ContentsMath and Minecraft? There are many cool things about the game of Minecraft. You can explore a huge world and find new things. You can fight monsters. You can build amazing structures and decorate them however you please.

But do you know that Minecraft can help you learn math? Maybe that doesnt sound like a lot of fun, but math skills can help you survive and create in your game world. Math can show you how to fight and travel and how to make and acquire new items and tools to help you survive. Math and geometry are very useful in Minecraft! Geometry is the form of math that deals with points, lines, angles, shapes, surfaces, and solids. The basic of geometry in Minecraft is the cube. Smelt This Heating items in a furnace is a common way to produce . You can cook fish, meat, or potatoes.

You can melt sand into glass. However, you need fuel to do this. Many Minecraft items can be used as fuel. You can use math to figure out how much fuel you need. A piece of coal or charcoal will heat eight items. So, how much coal would you need to heat a full stack (64) of pieces of something? MINECRAFT MANIA You can experiment to find out how much of various types of fuels you need to heat things.

A block of wood will heat 1.5 items. A bucket of lava will heat 100 items! This worker is smelting steel. You cant make steel in Minecraft, but you can smelt iron. Building Blocks You can use math to help you figure out how many resources you need to make a building in Minecraft. To figure out how big your building should be, figure out what you want to put inside it. For example, say you want a bed, a crafting table, a furnace, and a double chest in your first house. A bed and a double chest take up two blocks each.

A crafting table and a furnace take up one block each. Youll want some room to walk around. How much space do you think you need inside your house? MINECRAFT MANIA You can dig out a cave instead of building a structure for your first base if you want. Youll need fewer resources, but youll still need to figure out how much space youll want. It can help to draw a plan of what you want to build. Book Smart If youre playing in Survival in Minecraft, you need to collect all the resources youll use. Book Smart If youre playing in Survival in Minecraft, you need to collect all the resources youll use.

That means it can be important to plan out what you need and how to get it. For example, you need three pieces of sugar cane to make three pieces of paper. To make a book, you need three pieces of paper and a piece of leather. To make a bookshelf, you need three books and some wood. To get an enchanting table to work at top level, you need 15 bookshelves. Youll need a book, four blocks of obsidian, and two diamonds to make an enchanting table. Youll need a book, four blocks of obsidian, and two diamonds to make an enchanting table.

Different arrangements of bookshelves around an enchanting table will get you different results. How Many Hits? Say youve been exploring your Minecraft world and you get caught outside after dark. Theres a zombie coming at you and you swing your sword. How many times will you have to hit it to kill it? That depends on what kind of weapon you have. A zombie has 20 health points. If you have a wooden sword, it will do 4 or 5 points of every time you hit the zombie.

How many hits will it take? If you have a diamond sword, it will do 7 or 8 points of damage each time. How many hits will that take? MINECRAFT MANIA in Minecraft each have their own amount of health points. Creepers and skeletons also have 20 points. Endermen have 40 points. Iron golems have 100! Chickens have only 4 health points.