Ed. note: For more Minecraft lesson ideas, see Jim Pike’s lesson plans on order of operations and area and perimeter, featuring explainer videos and more, on the website Educade. Last year I taught ...

As gaming gains steam and loses its stigma in the wake of educators who champion its engaging nature, more teachers are incorporating the strategy into their instruction. One gaming strategy involves ...

Teenager Alea Frydnlund is creating zombies. “It will attack you if you’re on survival,” she says. “But right now, I’m just on creative.” Alea hunches over a screen in a classroom at the University of ...

Kids at the Math and Minecraft summer camp learn addition and multiplication by playing the popular game Minecraft. Instructor Heather Kellert is earning her Ph.D. in mathematics at the Ohio State ...

The Common Core standards have generated lots of attention and controversy, but what do they look like in a classroom? The NPR Ed team continues its summer series from a fifth-grade math lesson. From ...

The Minecraft community has a propensity to use redstone machines for a wide range of tasks, some of which aren't necessarily found within the game itself. Such was the case for u/IknowRedstone on ...

A Regina high school teacher is using the international smash hit video game Minecraft to teach his students math. "I was inspired by my own kids — seeing them play Minecraft and building things," ...

Matheminecraft puts players in a classic math puzzle called an Eulerian cycle, which you’ve almost definitely tried before. Can you draw a star without crossing your own line or lifting your pen? This ...