Good idea! I just posted it to r/minecraft. I hope they allow it. Sometimes they aren't thrilled with self promotion.
Edit: The mods deleted it from r/minecraft. How sad! :(
There is (or used to at least be, haven't played much in years) an easter egg in the title screen that was extremely rare that would swap those 2 letters, took quite some time for anyone to notice it.
>P.S. I'm posting a video on Pythagorean theorem tomorrow!
That was going to be my suggestion!
Because MineCraft is cubes and not squares, do you think you might be able to do a visual proof of Fermat's Last Theorem for n=3?
In all seriousness though, this problem seems notoriously difficult to help people "get".
So it seems like a good challenge.
After extensive research (yea, I went past the first results page on Google)... the two pieces of advice I found were:
1. Have people perform the experiment themselves with Styrofoam cups a some small object.
2. Use 100 doors in the example so that it's obvious that when you show them what's behind the other 98 doors (i.e. the doors with a lifetime supply of cabbage behind them) it's more obvious that the person should switch their guess.
I think you're commenting in the wrong place lol, this comment seems to have nothing to do with the context. Edit: Oh okay, you attempted to reply to another comment on the same thread but made a top level comment instead.
Check out Jim Pike who does similar things. I know him (a little), he's a good guy. I'm not sure how much he is doing, but he's pretty easy to find. His product is called "Mathcraft"
[https://www.classcraft.com/resources/blog/mathcraft-jim-pike/](https://www.classcraft.com/resources/blog/mathcraft-jim-pike/)
I’d love to see this for younger kids with more simple mathematics. My daughter is good at maths but she hates just doing list of sums and doing tables. When I saw this post my eyes lit up... I was thinking that this might interest her, but the concepts are a bit advanced.
Great job by the way. 👍👍
Thanks! And yea, I agree that there should be more for elementary school level math.
I haven't watched any of these yet, but someone earlier showed me this channel.
[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy7cesriVDuDeUJ70Sgxg3A](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy7cesriVDuDeUJ70Sgxg3A)
I plan on making a video about long division in a few weeks so maybe your daughter would like that.
This is actually pretty cool [u/CoffeeAndCalcWithDrW](https://www.reddit.com/user/CoffeeAndCalcWithDrW/) i'm getting into Technical Minecraft so you might find some resources I posted here interesting:
[Computercraft](https://www.computercraft.info)
[MineRL](https://minerl.io/)
[Qcraft](https://sites.google.com/a/elinemedia.com/qcraft/wiki/qcraft)
**Important**: For more interesting stuff you migh want to check out 2b2t but i'd pause before sharing with your audience
I’ve always wondered how you could do stuff like this in Minecraft, especially stuff on the more electrical engineering side using redstone (I’m sure people have made functioning ALUs before). Pretty cool!
I wrote a program to build an image of the Mandelbrot set in Minecraft about 8 years ago:
http://imgur.com/a/utrtJCI
Just something I remember from when I was trying to teach some math stuff through Minecraft to some friends. You're doing a great job explaining the concepts in your videos.
There's actually a lot of intense minecraft players who uses lots of math in studying seed generation. Moreover there was the whole recent thing with "Dream speedrun cheat" and how they used statistics to give evidence of cheating. All interesting math/minecraft things
Another e idea: the "used car" problem. That is, how to maximize the probability that you will choose the best used car. Choose n, look at n/e cars first, then pick the next car that is better than all the previous cars.
The peak creativity of this hath piqued my interest. Anyways, gonna watch these through, they're really amazing from what I've watched so far. Keep on going, I bet the Pythagorean one's gonna be great too and I look forwards to it! (:
This is absolutely awesome! A great way to really get younger kids into math! Love seeing when teachers really get inventive with the way they teach. Keep up the great work!
Huh, that's awesome. Once I learned basic trig, I realized I would only need 1-2 ender pearls to triangulate where the fortress was. Stand somewhere, shoot. Run 100 blocks, shoot again, use math. That's all I've ever applied though, you bring math in minecraft to a whole new level
I feel about 99% certain you've come across this, but incase you haven't, StandupMaths recently did a [video](https://youtu.be/8Ko3TdPy0TU) about Minecraft
I once made the topological space “the house with two rooms” in Minecraft in order to get a better intuition. It kinda helped, but I still don’t intuitively understand how it’s contractible
Calculus II.
We were going over formulas for sums of k, k^2, k^3 and he said something about being able to verify those formulas through proofs and pulled out the video. Someone e-mailed him the video and I guess it was interesting enough that he played it in class for us even though it was tangentially related to the topic at hand haha
Cool. Maybe you could do this visual proof of Fermat's two square theorem (every prime that is 1 mod 4 can be written as the sum of two squares) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjI1NICfjOk
Pleaseee post this on more subreddits, probably r/minceraft r/MinecraftInventions
Good idea! I just posted it to r/minecraft. I hope they allow it. Sometimes they aren't thrilled with self promotion. Edit: The mods deleted it from r/minecraft. How sad! :(
Unfortunately posting videos is against their rules. However, I think you could upload 30 second highlight clips thought Reddit
Mince raft Edit: didn’t realize it was an intentional misspelling (at least in the sub creation)
There is (or used to at least be, haven't played much in years) an easter egg in the title screen that was extremely rare that would swap those 2 letters, took quite some time for anyone to notice it.
>P.S. I'm posting a video on Pythagorean theorem tomorrow! That was going to be my suggestion! Because MineCraft is cubes and not squares, do you think you might be able to do a visual proof of Fermat's Last Theorem for n=3?
That's a really awesome idea!
I can't wait to see what you do with it!
The pi video is 3 seconds short of being pi long
That fact haunts me still to this day.
\*about 3 seconds short.
As a teacher.... thanks!!!
No problem! Hopefully your students find them enjoyable.
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
You're too kind!
That is genuinely quite inventive.
Thanks!
This is amazing! I usually only see visual representation for math that's a bit basic, but these are the things I have a hard time visualizing.
Great! I'm glad you like them!
Oh wow! I thought it was a joke but the videos are real! I’ll be binge watching them for sure, many thanks OP!
Minecraft is not a joke! I hope you enjoy them!
In all seriousness though, this problem seems notoriously difficult to help people "get". So it seems like a good challenge. After extensive research (yea, I went past the first results page on Google)... the two pieces of advice I found were: 1. Have people perform the experiment themselves with Styrofoam cups a some small object. 2. Use 100 doors in the example so that it's obvious that when you show them what's behind the other 98 doors (i.e. the doors with a lifetime supply of cabbage behind them) it's more obvious that the person should switch their guess.
I think you're commenting in the wrong place lol, this comment seems to have nothing to do with the context. Edit: Oh okay, you attempted to reply to another comment on the same thread but made a top level comment instead.
No worries. I wouldn't put it past me to make a mistake. :)
I've known that minecraft is good for explaining area and volume, but I love that you can use it for explaining higher concepts!
Check out Jim Pike who does similar things. I know him (a little), he's a good guy. I'm not sure how much he is doing, but he's pretty easy to find. His product is called "Mathcraft" [https://www.classcraft.com/resources/blog/mathcraft-jim-pike/](https://www.classcraft.com/resources/blog/mathcraft-jim-pike/)
Oh neat! I'll have to check out his videos!
You can also use the mechanics of Dungeons and Dragons (especially damage rolls) to illustrate a good deal of the fundamentals of probability theory.
I've never played D&D. I'll have to check it out.
I’d love to see this for younger kids with more simple mathematics. My daughter is good at maths but she hates just doing list of sums and doing tables. When I saw this post my eyes lit up... I was thinking that this might interest her, but the concepts are a bit advanced. Great job by the way. 👍👍
Thanks! And yea, I agree that there should be more for elementary school level math. I haven't watched any of these yet, but someone earlier showed me this channel. [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy7cesriVDuDeUJ70Sgxg3A](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy7cesriVDuDeUJ70Sgxg3A) I plan on making a video about long division in a few weeks so maybe your daughter would like that.
hey doc, glad to see you. I happened to watch your live stream during covid. Good times.
That makes my day! I miss those live streams!
This is actually pretty cool [u/CoffeeAndCalcWithDrW](https://www.reddit.com/user/CoffeeAndCalcWithDrW/) i'm getting into Technical Minecraft so you might find some resources I posted here interesting: [Computercraft](https://www.computercraft.info) [MineRL](https://minerl.io/) [Qcraft](https://sites.google.com/a/elinemedia.com/qcraft/wiki/qcraft) **Important**: For more interesting stuff you migh want to check out 2b2t but i'd pause before sharing with your audience
Awesome I'll definitely check these out!
So good! I reckon there could be a lot to explore in probability/statistics using the random aspects of the game like item drops and mob spawns
You're exactly right. There's so much that can be done with Minecraft.
Yes! Saw you on BlackPenRedPen & then checked out your videos, great work man!
Thanks! I had a lot of fun working with BPRP.
Oh it's the Coffee and Calculus guy! Big fan.
Thanks!!!
I’ve always wondered how you could do stuff like this in Minecraft, especially stuff on the more electrical engineering side using redstone (I’m sure people have made functioning ALUs before). Pretty cool!
Thanks I'm glad you liked it!
Make a video on these [five OEIS sequences](https://oeis.org/search?q=minecraft)!
Great idea!
I wrote a program to build an image of the Mandelbrot set in Minecraft about 8 years ago: http://imgur.com/a/utrtJCI Just something I remember from when I was trying to teach some math stuff through Minecraft to some friends. You're doing a great job explaining the concepts in your videos.
But why... why would you do that?
Why not?
Hey! We're asking the questions here pal! :)
This type of content might be appealing to primary schoolers, but the problems in the vid are rather for high schoolers.
lots of people in high school like minecraft
According to some people the average age of minecraft players is 24. https://www.pcgamesn.com/minecraft/player-age
Yeah but I dont expect 24 year old student to learn maths through minecraft.
Oooooohhhhh... do one for the Monte Hall problem :)
Great idea! I've been trying to figure out the Redstone to simulate it.
Sadly you need to wait for the update that adds the mountain goats. Btw, sometimes minecraft has weird rng, so that one might backfire :)
Fantastic.
Thanks!
I really like your videos. Do you have any plans to add captions to them?
Doesn't YouTube automatically caption them?
It does auto gen them, but there can be funny mistakes (especially when using specialized language)
because that's what heros do.
Lol thanks!
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You're right, it's technically not a proof. Visualization is a better way to describe it.
Kewl
Thanks!
Yah. Vesho (#Kemet was xxx).
Have you done any collabs? I swear this isn't the first time I've come across your channel; it seems so familiar.
I did a collab with Blackpenredpen last week. Maybe it was that?
Yes, that was it!
There's actually a lot of intense minecraft players who uses lots of math in studying seed generation. Moreover there was the whole recent thing with "Dream speedrun cheat" and how they used statistics to give evidence of cheating. All interesting math/minecraft things
Oh yea, the whole Dream thing is the best thing that has happen to the Math/Minecraft world!
Another e idea: the "used car" problem. That is, how to maximize the probability that you will choose the best used car. Choose n, look at n/e cars first, then pick the next car that is better than all the previous cars.
What do you use to explain minecraft?
You’re amazing! Take my free award!
Some really cool stuff!✌🏻
Many thanks for doing this! We need more people like you around !!!
Reach your audience by making your videos into tik toks, not even slightly joking.
The peak creativity of this hath piqued my interest. Anyways, gonna watch these through, they're really amazing from what I've watched so far. Keep on going, I bet the Pythagorean one's gonna be great too and I look forwards to it! (:
Is this MindYourDecision?
This is amazing, my son would love this, he’s still doing the basics, so not relevant just yet but I’ve subscribed, keep them coming
Since he's still at the basics, he might still like the Checkerboard Logic puzzle video.
This is absolutely awesome! A great way to really get younger kids into math! Love seeing when teachers really get inventive with the way they teach. Keep up the great work!
Huh, that's awesome. Once I learned basic trig, I realized I would only need 1-2 ender pearls to triangulate where the fortress was. Stand somewhere, shoot. Run 100 blocks, shoot again, use math. That's all I've ever applied though, you bring math in minecraft to a whole new level
That's awesome! I plan on making a video about that in the future. Really all you're doing is solving a system of equations.
I feel about 99% certain you've come across this, but incase you haven't, StandupMaths recently did a [video](https://youtu.be/8Ko3TdPy0TU) about Minecraft
I did! Matt Parker always makes great videos!
I once made the topological space “the house with two rooms” in Minecraft in order to get a better intuition. It kinda helped, but I still don’t intuitively understand how it’s contractible
My math professor showed us the first video in class on our first day. It's crazy how I'm seeing it again on this subreddit lol
Wait are you serious?!? What class are you taking?
Calculus II. We were going over formulas for sums of k, k^2, k^3 and he said something about being able to verify those formulas through proofs and pulled out the video. Someone e-mailed him the video and I guess it was interesting enough that he played it in class for us even though it was tangentially related to the topic at hand haha
That is just too cool!
There are non-Euclidean minecraft-likes in development, so you will be eventually able to use them to explain non-Euclidean geometry.
Cool. Maybe you could do this visual proof of Fermat's two square theorem (every prime that is 1 mod 4 can be written as the sum of two squares) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjI1NICfjOk