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Hunter walking 3/6 of the way to a meeting place — Fractions, that’s usually a math concept that students either love or hate. From what I’ve observed while in the classroom, and from personal experience, that love or hate stems from whether students understand the concept or not. Here is a ten minute lesson that can be extra helpful for students […]

Ten minute lesson: Fractions

February 26, 2019 in 10 Minute Lesson / 7GenGames / Educational Resources / fractions / Third Grade tagged 10 Minute Lesson / 7 Generation Games by Diana Sanchez

Chicken coops with 15 eggs — We use eggs to explain how to add and multiply fractions with like denominators. Like this video? You’ll love our games! Try them today here In Fish Lake, players practice with fractions while learning math problem-solving strategies. They’ll also be introduced to Native American history. Watch out for poisonous snakes! […]

VIDEO – Adding and Multiplying Fractions With Like Denominators

February 25, 2019 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Fifth Grade / Math / Mathematics / Teachers by Daniel Mondaca

Children with iPads and cards — What do you do on snow days, rainy days and just days when your kids seem to have a little too much energy to sit still? How about a scavenger hunt where they run around and learn their numbers in Spanish and English all while learning how to use an […]

Counting Scavenger Hunt: Ten-Minute Lesson

February 19, 2019 in 10 Minute Lesson / Educational Games / Educational Resources by AnnMaria De Mars

Our first app for pre-school age and up teaches counting in English and Spanish. Kids will love seeing virtual numbers pop up in their real world in this new app from 7 Generation Games and Strong Mind Studios. Bring numbers to life in two languages in this interactive augmented reality […]

Introducing Counting by 2 Languages

February 18, 2019 in Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Teachers by AnnMaria De Mars

Making Camp Lakota screen for mini-game choices — Not knowing the proper division terms can lead to very big problems! Watch this video from our game Making Camp Premium to see why we need to learn division. Also, you’ll learn some division vocabulary such as dividend, divisor, quotient, and remainder, that will definitely help you. Check it out! […]

VIDEO – Division Terms

February 15, 2019 in 7GenGames / Division / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Fifth Grade / Fourth Grade / Math / problem-solving by Daniel Mondaca

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

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

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

Happy Friday! You know what time it is…it’s time for the Freebie Friday. Today’s freebie is the math pretest for AzTech Games. You can use this pretest online for free. Also, you can use it whether you are or are not using our games. It’s a great resource to test […]

Freebie Friday: AzTech Games Pretest

January 18, 2019 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday tagged 7 Generation Games / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday by Diana Sanchez

We’ve made it to Friday and that means that it’s time for your Freebie Friday. Today’s freebie is a powerpoint presentation and pdf from Fish Lake on unlike fractions. The powerpoint and pdf “Working with Unlike Fractions” explains unlike fractions and gives multiple examples working through them. View and download […]

Freebie Friday: Working with Unlike Fractions

January 11, 2019 in 7GenGames / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday tagged 7 Generation Games / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday by Diana Sanchez