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Yearly Archives: 2019

Pass and Fail are antonyms — What’s an antonym? An antonym is a word that means the opposite of another word. Adjectives can have antonyms. So can adverbs and verbs . Did you know that sometimes you can make a word into its antonym just by adding a prefix? Don’t know what a prefix is? Watch […]

Ten minute lesson: Antonyms

February 11, 2019 in 10 Minute Lesson / Fifth Grade / Fourth Grade / Teachers by AnnMaria De Mars

Meg and Joe with their apple trees — Watch this video if you would like to learn how to visualize to solve your problems or at least your math problems. We can’t help you with the other stuff, although visualizing can help you achieve many other goals! For now, we are learning how to visualize math problems with […]

VIDEO- Problem Solving: Visualize

February 8, 2019 in Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Resources / Fifth Grade / Fourth Grade / fractions / Freebie Friday / Math / Mathematics / problem-solving / Teachers by Julia De Mars

Attention! This throwback post is all the way from 2014! Can you imagine? I do not remember that far back, but I barely remember last year and this one has only just begun so what we learned today is I have a poor memory. But we can learn even more […]

How to be better at anything

February 7, 2019 in AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday by Julia De Mars

Are you going to the National Conference on Education next week? So are we! If you’ll be attending NCE, please stop by our table in the exhibit hall: Booth 610. We’d love to meet you – and show you all the amazing things we’re up to as we work to […]

Meet us at the AASA’s National Conference of Education!

February 7, 2019 in 7GenGames / Conferences tagged 7 Generation Games / Conferences by Diana Sanchez

You know what? Working for 7 Generation Games is probably the perfect internship for me because studying abroad is expensive. In order to not mess up while in another country, you have to know how to budget. I know my parents will laugh hysterically at this bit, BUT it does […]

Interning Abroad Diary: You’ll Really Use Math

February 6, 2019 in Intern Diaries / Math by Julia De Mars

3d numbers — Okay, that’s an old joke, but I really do have a problem. We place some really unrealistic expectations on teachers, and people who teach math and English get the worst end of it in my experience. I teach statistics and that means that I’m going to assume students have some […]

Of course I have problems, I’m a math teacher

February 5, 2019 in AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM / Math by AnnMaria De Mars

Do you ever feel like you aren’t making progress in your efforts to teach students, improve schools, develop curriculum or whatever it is you are doing? I’ve been feeling like that for the last year, but then today I realized that we have more than doubled the number of […]

Better Education (Better Anything) Happens One Minute at a Time

February 2, 2019 in Educational Games / Educational Resources / Game Progress / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

Problem-solving:Estimiate — Rounding, estimating, and Venus fly traps oh my! Don’t be intimidated, this will be an exciting adventure on the journey to get Jenny to see the world’s largest Venus fly trap with math. Like this freebie? Then you’ll love Making Camp Premium. So many great activities on math, history, and […]

VIDEO- Estimation and the world’s largest Venus fly trap

February 1, 2019 in Educational Resources / Fifth Grade / Fourth Grade / Freebie Friday / Mathematics / problem-solving / Teachers by Julia De Mars

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