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Monthly Archives: September 2019

Do multiplication word problems hurt your brain? — In a previous post, I discussed the importance of repetition for memorizing multiplication facts. I also noted that repetition doesn’t have to be tedious. Students can use games that teach in a variety of ways and strengthen both recall and recognition memory, as well as teaching those multiplication facts in […]

Solving Multiplication Word Problems with Our Software

September 30, 2019 in Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

Pyramids are a likely icon on a time line — If you’re a teacher, you probably know that time lines are actually a Social Studies standard, not math. However, that seems like splitting hairs to us. We’re all about teaching math in context and we know from experience that many students struggle with timelines that have dates before the year […]

Lesson Plan: Timelines

September 20, 2019 in Educational Games / History / Seventh Grade / Sixth Grade by Daniel Mondaca

Were you wishing that you could pull out the videos in our educational games for use in your lesson plans or classroom presentations? Teachertube is a social network that allows you to have and share videos, audio, and documents that have been created by users in the education field. Unlike […]

Free videos, lesson plans and student progress reports for teachers

September 17, 2019 in Educational Games / Educational Resources / Teachers by Daniel Mondaca

User support can be messy — User support is everyone's job in a small company, but I'm happy to do it. Help requests mean people are actually using our software.

User support and big fat liars

September 16, 2019 in Educational Games / Game Progress / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

Augmented reality app for teaching multiplication — TL; DR Our app gave the correct answer 99% of the time. So we spent days creating a new app to teach multiplication in English and Lakota that is 100% accurate. Dennis wrote a script to check the answer produced when you hold the phone over one of the cards […]

When 99% isn’t good enough for our students

September 9, 2019 in Code Talk / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games tagged augmented reality by AnnMaria De Mars

Spirit Lake: The Game can help start college preparation in middle school — “The place you are to occupy in the universe is the space where your greatest passion meets the world’s greatest pain.” Rachel Crosby Is there anything more painful than giving up on your goals in life? Too many times, I have seen students drop out of college or change majors […]

College preparation starts in middle school

September 3, 2019 in Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars