Maria Burns Ortiz

This is an incredible skill I have mastered, I thought to myself as I sat typing away, unfazed, as my oldest child stood crying in the doorway of her bedroom making every effort to be as loud as possible to express her outrage over me sending her to her room […]

The Parent’s Resume

May 21, 2016 in Parenting Like I Know What I'm Doing by Maria Burns Ortiz

There is such thing as a stupid question. We make a point to NOT ask them when interviewing job candidates at 7 Generation Games. Here’s why… I read one of those articles going around this week about a guy who interviewed at Microsoft and was hit with one of those […]

Why We Don’t Ask Ridiculous Interview Questions

May 20, 2016 in Start-up Diaries by Maria Burns Ortiz

“Why did I divide sin by tan? Just cos.” – Source: Jokes 4 Us Welcome to our newest social media feature: #dailymathjoke As an educational gaming company, we not only believe learning math can be fun, but we’re working hard every day to make that a reality. And with math […]

Math Can Be Fun – and Funny !

May 16, 2016 in 7GenGames by Maria Burns Ortiz

My house is constant chaos (when I write chaos, that’s really a code word for messy). We have three small children and a small house. (Normally, this would be the part where I plug something about math or learning + buy our games, but instead I will say we’d like […]

Persistence and Possibly a Place for Everything In My House

May 11, 2016 in Parenting Like I Know What I'm Doing by Maria Burns Ortiz

Tomorrow is Mother’s Day. And if you’re like me, you may have found yourself thinking this morning “Oh my god, I need to get my mom something amazing that says ‘I love you’ and ‘thanks for giving birth to me’ and ‘thanks for not killing me during those horrible teenage […]

Mother’s Day Is Tomorrow?!

May 7, 2016 in Parenting Like I Know What I'm Doing by Maria Burns Ortiz

In my last post, I tackled basic physics — and I use “physics” loosely, but amusingly — and children. This time, I’ll be going over units of time and age. Our upcoming game, AzTech, hits on data and measurements as well. The measure concepts we hit on in AzTech are […]

How Old Is My Baby? Wait, How Old Am I?

April 28, 2016 in Parenting Like I Know What I'm Doing by Maria Burns Ortiz

In my very introductory to introductory physics class in ninth grade, we were taught that there is a basic principle of physics that no two objects can occupy the same space. I know my physicist co-founder would likely take issue with my oversimplifying of this statement as when I looked […]

Testing the Boundaries of Physics and My Patience

April 27, 2016 in Parenting Like I Know What I'm Doing by Maria Burns Ortiz

There are a lot of days in the year — at least 365, in the case of this year, 366. And yet, it seems like everything in my life always ends up being scheduled on the same day. I’m not talking about Saturdays – if you’ve got kids, you just […]

What are the odds? Trying to figure out why everything ...

April 19, 2016 in Parenting Like I Know What I'm Doing by Maria Burns Ortiz

Enough is enough. I was on Twitter this morning when I was officially pushed over the edge. Here’s the tweet that did it: Edge Retreats gets $1 million to simplify booking of luxury villas https://t.co/QBGoUkw6bI pic.twitter.com/ogsNKYz043 — VentureBeat (@VentureBeat) April 8, 2016 “Now, what’s wrong luxury villas?” You might be […]