National Native American Heritage Month is celebrated in the month of November. Here are some fun activities that your K-12 students can participate in all year.
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This November, we are celebrating National Native American Heritage Month. Let's give the spotlight to these notable Indigenous professionals in business and technology.
Celebrating Native Americans in the Space and Tech Industries
7 Generation Games intern, Aaliyah, sheds light on our new game, "Disaster Deduction Detectives."
Intern Spotlight: Disaster Deduction Detectives
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
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.
It has been a couple of years since the last Gathering of Nations. That’s what made this annual Southwestern powwow extra special this past weekend. Albuquerque was uncannily calm and sunny compared to other areas of New Mexico, where wind storm warnings were in effect. Everyone was ready for the […]
Gathering of Nations 2022
These days, it isn’t every day Navajos work with raw sheep’s wool or even think about crafting with yarn to make something wearable. Though sheep and goats are the traditional and cultural animals most raised by my Navajo people and other tribes of the Southwest, fewer people farm animals than […]
Working with Wool Pt. 1: Shearing, Skirting and Scouring
We have added a Resource Library webpage on our teacher platform, Growing Math. We have also organized the virtual manipulatives page. What’s in the Resource Library? Are you looking for something to make your lesson just a little more engaging or to reach that student who didn’t understand the first […]
The Growing Math Resources Library
Most of the time, words like “studying” and “vacations”, can sound like complete antonyms. In general, studying at a school can be exhausting, to the point that can become stressful for kids. However, studying by itself may not be as stressful as studying while at school, where kids must past […]
Why is it good to learn during vacations?
We updated Making Camp Lakota. Prepare your kids to beat summer learning loss with this free game!
Prevent Summer Learning Loss with Making Camp Lakota!
Asynchronous, self-paced teacher training just arrived at Growing Math. Now you can train with us on on your own time, for free.
Growing Math Asynchronous Training: Train on your own!
Break down the language barrier with our English/Spanish #bilingual games. Play "AzTech: Meet the Maya" and "Making Camp Bilingual" for free for the next 30 days! Read our latest blog.