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It is Week 3 of our Internet Field Trip Fridays! We are also one week closer to Spring. But what exactly does that mean? Think about it, the first day of winter was Dec. 21st. The first day of spring is March 20th. Here’s your winter breakdown: 10 days in […]

Internet Field Trip Fridays: An Overview on Teaching Fractions

February 24, 2017 in 7GenGames / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Resources / Math by Victoria Moll-Ramírez

Yes, we are seriously doing a blog on why math matters. Why? Because a refresher is never bad. We live in a world of fake news and where conspiracy theories currently challenge all basic knowledge, so don’t judge us for reminding people why math matters. One of the greatest minds […]

Why Math Matters

December 14, 2016 in 7GenGames / Math by Victoria Moll-Ramírez

Eva, Maria and me — I get asked this question all of the time in many, many different contexts, from elementary school children who play our games, to game developers who are not involved in education. There are multiple questions for this, but let me answer the grown-ups first. I care so much about math […]

Why Do You Care So Much About Math?

April 30, 2016 in AnnMaria / Educational Games / Game Progress / Math by AnnMaria De Mars

little kid in a business suit — I was wrong. Like many people, I thought teachers objected to standardized testing because it highlighted their inadequacies and held accountable those who weren’t doing their jobs. Of course, if you were one of those slacking government workers, you wouldn’t want anyone pointing out that you were falling down on […]

The Teachers Are All Right

January 24, 2016 in AnnMaria / Math by AnnMaria De Mars

Unicorn — Along with running a game company, I teach, both judo and statistics. In neither my judo classes nor my courses in multivariate statistics, epidemiology or quantitative data analysis does anyone ever ask “Isn’t there a way of doing this without effort? Could we possibly learn judo without doing any actual […]

Wanted: Magical Math Unicorn

January 11, 2016 in AnnMaria / Educational Games / Math by AnnMaria De Mars

Happy Freebie Friday! It’s been a long week and to help you get ready for the Halloween weekend, here’s a treat from the team at 7 Generation Games. Today’s #FreebieFriday is a video from Fish Lake covering fractions, a great resource for those of you looking to help your students […]

Freebie Friday: Fish Lake Math Video

October 30, 2015 in 7GenGames / Freebie Friday / Math tagged division / Fish Lake / fractions / Freebie Friday / Math by Erick Salomon

Happy Freebie Friday! Today’s Freebie Friday is for those of you who are looking for resources to help your students or kids with long division or multiplication. They were created to complement the Common Core-aligned Number and Operations in Base 10 standards as covered in Spirit Lake. Check out this […]

Freebie Friday: Long Division and Multiplication

October 16, 2015 in 7GenGames / Freebie Friday / Math by Jessica Holmes

It’s Friday and we have another Freebie for you! This time, we are sharing our favorite links to teacher resources. There are tons of resources out here – we’ve done the hard part and vetted them for you. Take a look at our Resources page – we’ve also included below: […]

Freebie Friday: Links We Like

October 2, 2015 in 7GenGames / Freebie Friday / Math by Jessica Holmes

It’s the first official Friday of the fall season, and we have another freebie for you! Subtracteasy walks you through the “easy” steps of a subtraction problem, taking it piece by piece. Enjoy!

Freebie Friday: Subtracteasy

September 25, 2015 in 7GenGames / Freebie Friday / Math by Jessica Holmes

It’s Friday and we have another freebie for you! Getting right back into the school season, we’re sharing one of our educational video games on how to use estimation to solve math problems. Happy viewing!

Freebie Friday: Estimation and the world’s largest Venus fly trap

September 18, 2015 in 7GenGames / Freebie Friday / Math by Jessica Holmes

Marisol Castillo Schultz — I had the opportunity to research and review Stanford’s YouCubed mathematics site. Not to sound cynical, but when I started my expectations were as follows: toddler math games, links to math games and math activities for students to do at home or in class and half of these are going […]

YouCubed: Math Site Review

September 10, 2015 in Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / Math by AnnMaria De Mars

7 Generation Games — If this is your first visit to our website, thank you for taking the time to read our blog and let us introduce ourselves. We are a company that combines math, Native American history and adventure gaming into our video games. The video clip below demonstrates the (awesome) video games that […]

How 7 Generation Games differs from other companies

April 23, 2015 in 7GenGames / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / Math / Women in Tech by admin