Game design
Numeracy Lesson 5
Thinking mathematically
Introduction
Watch the video for an introduction to Lesson 5.
Understanding the tasks
Rating the tasks
This lesson contains a few activities. Each activity will have one or more tasks. These tasks have been given a rating.
Some of the tasks in this lesson are must do. These are important to help you understand the introductory ideas or skills.
Have a go at the should do tasks and reach out to your friends or teacher if you need some advice. These will usually take a bit longer to complete than must do tasks.
Could do tasks will probably take you some extra time and might need you to get creative or problem solve. We strongly encourage you to try these.
Activity 1 - Code.org
Task
Choose your level: Lesson 3 Maze Sequence or Lesson 6 Maze Loops.
Click on the image to open your chosen lesson on the Code.org website.
Don't sign in, just work through the tasks.
Lesson 3 Maze Sequence (11 levels to complete)
Lesson 6 Maze Loops (14 levels to complete)
Activity 2 - Think like a coder
Task 1
Watch the video The Prison Break | Think Like a Coder, Ep 1.
Answer the questions in the interactive below, pausing the video as required.
The Prison Break | Think Like A Coder, Ep 1
Duration: 6:51
Task 2
Use the interactive to explore the embedded Tower of Hanoi game.
Activity 3 - Evaluation
Task 1
Task 2
Choose the game you'd like to build: Paddle! or Maze.
Maze will take longer because you need to design a maze background image.
Click on the image to open your chosen lesson on the MakeCode Arcade website.
Set to picture in picture mode so you can watch as you create.
Don't forget to evaluate your creation!
Hint: The Youtube playlist for all of the Beginning Makecode Arcade tutorials can be found here.
Handing in your work
Don't forget to hand in the work you completed today!
Your teacher will have told you to do one of the following:
Upload any digital documents you created and any photos you took of your written work to your Learning Management system (MS Teams, Google Classroom for example).
Email any digital documents you created and any photos you took of your written work to your teacher.
Make sure you keep any handwritten work you did in your exercise book or folder as your teacher may need to see these when you are back in class.