Making Camp Premium was already better than the math worksheets it replaced, but this update includes many teacher and student recommendations for improvement
AnnMaria De Mars
Without teaching, I would not have had the opportunity to try so many different uses of our software to get those little black boxes with white letters to actually participate in class.
Four reasons a company president is still teaching
In a recent conversation it became clear to me that I am not very good at explaining how 7 Generation Games is a profitable and growing business. That probably was made worse by the fact that we are re-releasing two of our apps using different technology to be able to […]
How we make money when content is not ours to ...
7 Generation Games and the Strong Mind Strong Body Foundation are collaborating to provide free educational resources to students in order to help them face: risk of child sexual abuse, exposure to domestic violence in the home, and creating a safety plan among others.
Strong Mind Strong Body Good Games
Teachers assume their students are familiar with technology but that's not always true. That's why Growing Math includes some basic lessons on Google apps
Do we really need to teach Google apps?
When you have six times as many people using your products you need to increase your staff, and quickly. The end result is more features, more support - but less sleep for us while we scale up.
User numbers, you and the fail whale
Here are some activities, projects, and experiments that can be done in class or at home. Some are USDA and others are from Ag in the Classroom. Here are 12 for today. Elementary School Science Resources Pre-K to 2nd grade Eggology – will learn what a chick needs for survival […]
Free Agricultural Science Resources for Grades 3-8
USDA has so many free resources for teaching science, reading and art that we had to write several posts. What do you do, though, when material uses outdated terms like, "the Indians" ? We use it as a teachable moment.
Free Science Resources from USDA
Time Spent Learning Your Culture is of the Essence Several years ago, Dr. Erich Longie and I participated in an analysis of the National Indian Education Study database where we found that the more native youth learned their culture and language in school, the worse their math scores. This finding […]
Include Native American Culture in Your Math Class
1 When we started 7 Generation Games, our lead cultural consultant, Dr. Erich Longie, told me that the solution was to include Native American culture as part of math, and vice versa. As he said to a student, “Of course our ancestors used math! We were a nomadic people! Do you […]
Where does Native American Culture fit? Everywhere!
I was super-excited to have had the chance to speak at Minot State University on how we use Native American culture to teach math. In analyzing our data, one key issue we found was PERSEVERANCE. That is, students simply give up when it gets the least bit hard. It wasn’t […]
Using Native American Culture to Teach Math
It's not us, it's you. What's up with that?