Minecraft- area and perimeter in maths

Children LOVE Minecraft! They all want to play it and they all know how to play it! 

The children all lolled into Minecraft and stared a 'flat world' on creative mode. They then selected a range of different coloured blocks. I told then to use upto 30 blocks to create squares and rectangles.

Once they had their shapes, they took photos and imported into Pic Collage. Text was then added to show the area and perimeter of each shape. 

Remember to use multicoloured blocks in the shapes... It looks better and it's easier to count! 

The children loved it and learnt a lot about area and perimeter without noticing!

Pic Collage - Venn and Carroll Diagrams

Great interactive and fun way of creating these diagrams!

Take a photo of a pre drawn Venn or Careoll diagram. Set it as the background on Pic Collage.

Children write the names of the fields in Pic Collage. Then they survey people and take their photo and place them in the correct place! 

Really easy and the children really enjoyed it! 

Pic Collage and Angry Birds - angles in maths

First I let the children play Angry Birds. We then talked about angles and which angle is the best for killing the pigs. 

They launched the birds and then took photos of their flight path...the dotted lines. They imported the photos into Pic Collage and airdropped them to me and I printed them.

They then drew on the angles the angry birds took and measured then using a protractor 

Pic Collage - Angles in Maths

Pic Collage is a simple and easy way to record work. The children found angles in the playground and took a photo of them with a protractor. 

They then imported it into Pic Collage and wrote the degrees and angle