How does 7 Gen Blocks enable us to serve overlooked communities and improve math education at the same time? Dr. De Mars, 7 Generation Games president, has the answers.
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This is the first in a multi-lesson unit designed to assess student mathematics proficiency by playing games that teach about Indigenous cultures that have embedded math problems. It also requires students to create their own math activities and math problems.
Math Assessment and Indigenous Cultures
1 starting the new year, a newlywed couple, a founder starting up a company or an athlete working with a new coach, the secret to your success is the same - relationships.
The Secret to Success – at Everything
Even non-poetry lovers will love this site that includes a map and history of First Peoples, told through poetry. Introduction by Joy Harjo.
Sites we love: Map of First Peoples Poetry
Whether you are counting down the last days of the school year or trying to come up with ways to keep your summer school students awake and on task, Google Arts & Culture is a gem. Visit museums virtually, tour national parks, even re-create ancient pottery.
Sites we love: Google Arts & Culture
5 ways Growing Math makes summer school prep easy-
1. Supplemental lessons that are both engaging and standards-aligned, with all the resources you need included.
2. Educational games with standards-aligned content that students can play in class or at home for remediation, reinforcing a concept or a reward for getting their work done early.
3. An entire summer school course of the Growing Math lessons. You'll be amazed how quickly you can pull this together.
4. Include more diverse perspectives in your classroom, from Latino history to Dakota culture, integrated with math and language arts
5. Self-paced teacher training that can be done in as little as 15-minute increments
Feeling unprepared for summer school? Let Growing Math help you
"Why are you working on a game that was done years ago? Why on earth would you be happy about that?" This is a question I get asked by everyone from investors to teachers to random people sitting next to me on an airplane. Here are 4 answers to that question.
4 reasons why Making Camp Lakota updates are a good ...
My granddaughter calls me "hilarifying" - a combination of hilarious and terrifying. Whether or not you backed us on Kickstarter years ago, you probably found our Family Textbook hilarifying. In this blog post I hid on our site because it is not sufficiently professional, try to guess who said what.
One of those politically incorrect posts I have to hide
Whether you want the world to learn about the importance of turtles, cultural differences in bead work design or how to compute quartiles of temperature readings, you can make a game for it.
Think your game idea can’t happen? Think again.
Every organization has knowledge they want to share with the world and games are a great way to do it. Not everyone has the capacity to make educational games - that's where we come in.
What knowledge do YOU want to share with the world?
Teaching with Primary Sources Network is a site we love because of the practical lessons, discussion and wealth of topics. It's only flaw is with SO much content you sometimes can get lost.