I grew up believing that the Sermon on the Mount was beautiful. Instructions to love your neighbours are expanded to love one’s enemy. A commandment not to break one’s oaths is expanded to not needing oaths but letting your every word be equally binding. A rule about giving a certificate of divorce that would allow a woman to remarry is recast as not divorcing a woman – a later editor may have added an exception for cases of sexual immorality. Likewise adultery is expanded to count anyone who looks at woman with lust. “You have heard it was said to the ancients, ‘Do not murder’ and ‘Anyone who murders will be subject to judgement’ but I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother is subject to judgement.” (Matthew 5:21-22a). Yet in Matthew the laws are made stricter everything is intensified. Like the Leviticus laws attributed to God through Moses, the laws center around a commandment to love and be perfect. Jesus is portrayed as Moses on a mountain giving the people another interpretation of the law. That is the section known as the Sermon on the Mount.
Matthew 5 – 7 is an incredibly important part of the Bible and, like most of the Bible, can be used for good or evil. If you’ve read this far, you might enjoy my other minecraft posts: If you have 45 rails and 6 power rails, will you be able to make an empty cart go to the end of the track? What if you had to go down two blocks height at some point? What if you had 9 power rails instead of six, but you also had to go up four blocks height? There are so many possible questions for a budding engineer. Once a child has figured out exactly how far the minecart will go, the child can be posed different questions. Yet the program does treat speed on a diagonal line slightly differently. Whereas with a normal triangle the hypotenuse is shorter than the combined lengths of the other two sides, in a minecraft “triangle” the hypotenuse is exactly the same length as the combined lengths. It’s a line that goes over and up, over and up, over and up. The reason is, there’s no such thing really as a diagonal line in minecraft. My instructions to him included testing straight lines and diagonal lines separately. It wasn’t what I was imagining (it was better). This first picture is of the test zone he built. I made up a simple chart for my nine year old and put him to work.
Then we got onto the work of discovering how far apart the power rails could be placed while still keeping the minecart moving. With a specific number of iron, how many track pieces could a person build? We did questions like this as a warm-up activity.
Or one could ask the questions the other way.
#MINECRAFT RAILS FULL#
How many iron ingots would a person need to produce a full 64 tracks? The answer involves dividing by 16 and then multiplying by 6. It’s easy to write math questions asking the kids about how many iron ingots they would need to produce a specific number of plain track pieces. Since gold is harder to find than iron, the normal railway will consist of many plain tracks with the occasional power rail to restore the minecarts energy. If two or more power rails are side by side they can be powered by the same torch. Power rails need a source of power, such as a redstone torch on a block next to them. One of them is the basic track made from six iron ingots and a stick, the other type is the power rail, made from six gold ingots, a stick and some redstone dust.
#MINECRAFT RAILS PDF#
Why not encourage the kids to explore the math within minecraft itself? And so I continue my minecraft math series, this time with a printable pdf worksheet you can download! It seems so strange, to think that pictures alone of the wonderful mathematical place like minecraft would somehow make the math special. One of the thing that confuses me is the abundance of worksheets available online that offer “minecraft math” but are focused on adding a few minecraft pictures to normal addition or multiplication questions.
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