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Monthly Archives: January 2019

kids playing at Hotel Transylvania display in the metro station — This is a more recent “throwback” from a post written by Ann Maria in August 10, 2018. However, it seems very relevant to anyone travelling or debating travelling this year of 2019. I, Julia De Mars, personally related to this surprisingly a lot since I seem to move just when […]

Throwback Thursday: The thing about moving is you bring yourself ...

January 31, 2019 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries / Throwback Thursday by Julia De Mars

Zombies — Think we couldn’t fit zombies into a video on math terms? Ha! You underestimate us! Sometimes students get a problem wrong not because they don’t know the answer but because they don’t understand the question. What is the difference between 210 and 11 ? Well, one is a three-digit number […]

Math Terms with Zombies: Ten-Minute Lesson

January 28, 2019 in 10 Minute Lesson / Educational Resources / Fifth Grade / Fourth Grade / Mathematics / problem-solving / Teachers by AnnMaria De Mars

Maybe you’ve heard that a stolen iPhone is nothing more than a brick. Stop and read this. It may save you whole lot of grief and panic. Perhaps you feel as if your data is safe. You have a password and it’s not 123456. You have find my iPhone. […]

No, a stolen iPhone isn’t a brick: How thieves access ...

January 27, 2019 in AnnMaria by AnnMaria De Mars

Julia in 7 Generation Games hat — It takes a lot and I mean A LOT to get myself motivated to basically do anything as evidenced by the fact that my Motivation Monday is getting published on Saturday. Why? I don’t know. My mom would also like to know, but sorry it’s just how I’m wired I […]

Intern Diaries: Getting Motivated to Learn

January 26, 2019 in 7GenGames / Intern Diaries / Start-up Diaries by Julia De Mars

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from March 29, 2015 “What I Learned Lately” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. I’m not much of a stop and smell the roses type of person. […]

Throwback Thursday: What I Learned Lately

January 24, 2019 in AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged 7 Generation Games / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

spaghetti — Word Problems are Hard for Many Students. Here’s one way to make these easier I don’t care how old you are, word problems can confuse you. This is particularly true when you have a lot of extra information. That’s what the world is like, though. When you need to figure […]

Ten-minute lesson: Problem-solving tip for word problems – Start at ...

January 24, 2019 in 10 Minute Lesson / Division / Fourth Grade / Mathematics by AnnMaria De Mars

giraffe — If Janie had 3 avocados and Frank owns 2 giraffes, how many hippopotamuses does it take to make it rain for 6 days? Do word problems ever make you feel like this? Many students who have no problem with “What is 12 x 4?” get stuck when the question involves […]

Build a model: Ten minutes on problem-solving

January 23, 2019 in 10 Minute Lesson / Fourth Grade / Mathematics / multiplication / problem-solving by AnnMaria De Mars

Label the terms 512/2 =256 — Quick! Which one is the dividend and which is the divisor? Unless, you have learned, or taught, division fairly recently, I bet you had to to think about it for a while. Maybe you don’t even know. Here is a video to help learn the quotient from the remainder. This […]

Division Terms: What really trips students up in learning division

January 22, 2019 in 10 Minute Lesson / Division / Fourth Grade / Mathematics / Teachers by AnnMaria De Mars

Julia in a boat on the Thames River — by Julia De Mars I’ll be honest here, I have a very hard life. I’m studying for a semester in London, England, a horrible and uncultured place. Hate it. I have met too many great people already, like seriously go away I have things to do- games to test! There […]

Interning Abroad

January 20, 2019 in Intern Diaries / Start-up Diaries by Julia De Mars

Happy Friday! You know what time it is…it’s time for the Freebie Friday. Today’s freebie is the math pretest for AzTech Games. You can use this pretest online for free. Also, you can use it whether you are or are not using our games. It’s a great resource to test […]

Freebie Friday: AzTech Games Pretest

January 18, 2019 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday tagged 7 Generation Games / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday by Diana Sanchez

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from February 17, 2014 “Somebody Else’s Dream” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. When I get some time next year, I’m planning on writing a book on […]

Throwback Thursday: Somebody Else’s Dream

January 17, 2019 in AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged AnnMaria / Parenting / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

This post could be labeled Part 1 of 873 but I don’t have that much time. Here is the back story … I decided to teach a more or less introductory statistics class this semester because we make educational games and I think it is important to be in the […]

OMG I Know Why Teachers Don’t Use New Technology

January 13, 2019 in AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM by AnnMaria De Mars