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Monthly Archives: April 2019

Since 7 Generation Games started, we began with a design for low-income schools, our software has always worked on older devices and with unreliable or slow internet. Over the past few years, we have added the following: 1. Apps that work offline so that students do not need Internet access. […]

Because we care about education

April 23, 2019 in 7GenGames / Bilingual Education / Educational Games by Daniel Mondaca

Hunter walking 3/6 of the way to a meeting place — Look how far we've come! I wonder what those people who saw our very early efforts expected. If you're one of them, please take a second look because I'm sitting here grinning thinking how surprised you're going to be.

If you haven’t seen us lately, you haven’t seen us

April 22, 2019 in AnnMaria / Educational Games / Game Progress by AnnMaria De Mars

Fish Lake — Learn about fractions and numberlines with Anookwesens. How was it that hundreds of years ago, Indians traveled all over and met up with one another just the right spot? It’s not as if they had computers to print maps to tell them where to go, and it’s a really big […]

VIDEO – Fractions on a Numberline

April 18, 2019 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Fifth Grade / Fourth Grade / fractions / Math / Mathematics / Teachers / video tagged fifth grade math / fractions / numberline by Daniel Mondaca

Kid playing making camp — One in a series on problem solving tips from our game Making Camp, this short video shows how to make a problem easier by only keeping essential information. What is ‘essential information’, anyway ? In Making Camp, players practice multiplication and division skills while learning math problem-solving strategies. They’ll also […]

VIDEO – Problem Solving Tip: Throw it out

April 17, 2019 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Fourth Grade / Math / Mathematics / problem-solving / Teachers / Third Grade by Daniel Mondaca

Girl in class with teacher — We want to improve education for both students and teachers. We are aware of how difficult it can be to get 30 students to stay in their seats, much less to pay attention. Life is not a subject Seriously, did you use math from 9-10 then read this blog during […]

4 ways we give teachers the support they need

April 15, 2019 in Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Resources by Daniel Mondaca

Fish Lake — The good news to report to you is that Fish Lake Adventure is now in the app store for iPad. All of you who have asked for our game that teaches fractions to be available for iPad, here it is! It also teaches Ojibwe history and culture. Let me tell […]

At what age can your children know fishing and hunting ...

April 14, 2019 in AnnMaria / Educational Games / Educational Resources by AnnMaria De Mars

Long Division Teaching 2 — We like this video because it gives students a strategy. By teaching students how to “guess,” we build students’ confidence by showing them that they have the skills to solve even the most difficult appearing problems. Learn how to solve long division problems in minutes! Like this video? You’ll love […]

VIDEO – Solving long division

April 9, 2019 in Division / Educational Resources / Fourth Grade / Long Division / Mathematics / Teachers by Daniel Mondaca

Staff with no unicorns shirt — A week ago, I wrote about how, despite heroic efforts on the part of many teachers and administrators and some success stories, the problems I see in education today are the same as when I began teaching in Banning and Riverside, CA almost 35 years ago. If nothing changes, nothing […]

How to change education: Rant part 2

April 8, 2019 in AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM by AnnMaria De Mars

We know how hard it is to be a teacher. You’re expected to: *Plan a class *Prepare the material *Control over 20 students (or 40!) *Correct exams *and more! Also, we know that you get home exhausted after an intense workday, hoping to have quality time with your family or […]

Make lesson planning quick and easy

April 4, 2019 in Teachers by Daniel Mondaca

Flight 1 of 13 in NSF Innovation Corps Program — When releasing 2 games isn’t what took most of my time this month, you know it has been crazy busy. Start a company so your time is your own, they said… Shaking my head so hard I think it will fall off. We DID release two games that got overshadowed […]

9 cities, 2 games & Wrestlemania

April 3, 2019 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars