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7GenBanner — These are comments from actual educators. I’m a vegan. I could never buy a game that has shooting deer in it. Couldn’t you have the Indians make friends with the deer instead? We could never use your game in our school because it involves shooting animals. We could never […]

Don’t Know Much About History … (Or, why our games ...

November 25, 2014 in AnnMaria / Cultural content by AnnMaria De Mars

The evening of Wednesday, November 19, our CEO went to LAX to pick up her daughter Ronda Rousey from her returning flight from Las Vegas. On their way out to car, TMZ stopped both Dr. AnnMaria and Ronda Rousey for a math pop quiz. Since 7 Generation Games creates educational […]

Dr. AnnMaria, CEO of 7 Generation Games, featured on ...

November 21, 2014 in 7GenGames tagged Ronda Rousey signed 50 of these photos last night.. so far 27 of them have been reserved for fans. Want one? Here's how to get yours: bit.ly/rowdynewyear by admin

It’s Friday and here’s your freebie from 7 Generation Games. We’ve notice that there isn’t a lot of Native America clip art that is available for teachers, which is why we have included this package for you to use for free. More specifically, the artwork depicted here is based on […]

Freebie Friday: Native American Clip Art

November 21, 2014 in 7GenGames / Freebie Friday tagged Chippewa / Clip Art / Dakota / Free / Ojibwa / Ojibwe / Sioux by admin

When our CEO, Dr. AnnMaria De Mars, went to pick up her daughter Ronda Rousey at LAX airport, TMZ was there. The camera man had prepared some math questions in an attempt to stump the founder of our math video game company. Instead, she taught him a thing or two. […]

Our CEO Schools TMZ Camera Guy in Math as She ...

November 21, 2014 in 7GenGames by Maria Burns Ortiz

7 Generation Games Blog — “Why do you care about math so much?” As a volunteer, I spend a lot of time with middle school and high school students, and this is the question I get asked the second most often. (The most common question I get is “What is the hardest part about […]

Why Do You Care About Math So Much?

November 19, 2014 in AnnMaria / Math by AnnMaria De Mars

Join us on January 3, 2015 for our tweetup in Las Vegas. Although Ronda Rousey’s fight was rescheduled an will no longer be held at UFC 182, we’ve decided to continue with our original plan to host the tweetup right before the fights. We know a lot of people already purchased tickets for the […]

Join us for our Rowdy New Year tweetup in Vegas ...

November 19, 2014 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Events tagged armbar nation / donate a game / educational video games / Las Vegas / MGM UFC 182 / Ronda Rousey / tweetup by admin

Recently I attended GDC Next—an annual event held in LA—as a Conference Associate. GDC Next is a spin-off of the Game Developer’s Conference held in San Francisco every year in March. The LA convention was catered more specifically towards app developers as compared to GDC Main, but still featured speakers […]

GDC Next 2014 Report

November 18, 2014 in 7GenGames tagged 7 Generation Games / GDC / LA / Steam Store by eric

7GenBanner — University statistics courses – I’m not just an employee, I’m a customer! (I bet none of you remember that Hair Club for Men commercial and don’t get that reference. That’s okay, I amused myself.) In my spare time, of which I have none, I teach a statistics course once or […]

A Tale of Two Statistics Professors

November 18, 2014 in AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM by AnnMaria De Mars

7GenBanner — When I was a kid, I absolutely loved the Wizard of Oz stories, but even at nine years old, I realized they were fantasy. Apparently, not everyone got the memo. Take Professor Wogglebug, who had invented education pills. All students needed to do was swallow his pills and they had […]

Professor Wogglebug’s math class

November 15, 2014 in AnnMaria / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

Earlier this week, I talked about the difficulty of coming up with math problems and examples that interest students. There are, however, two sentences that I would bet most children have uttered at least once by the time they turn 11 years old: Are we there yet? and It’s not […]

Freebie Friday: Video and Powerpoint for fractions on a number ...

November 14, 2014 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Freebie Friday by AnnMaria De Mars

I attended an event the other night where, as it does from time to time, the topic of women founders came up. One of the speakers, a very nice and unquestionably successful investor, mentioned that he had just closed his first deal with a female-led company. He noted that out […]

How “Easy” It Is For Women-Led Startups To Get Funding

November 14, 2014 in Start-up Diaries / Women in Tech by Maria Burns Ortiz

Going through our archives, we came across this great post from January 22, 2008 on “Tinkerbell visits The Julia Group” that we wanted to share with you in case you missed it the first time around. In the movie, Hook, there is a very sad part where Tinkerbelle turns herself into […]

Throwback Thursday: Tinkerbelle visits The Julia Group

November 13, 2014 in AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged The Julia Group / Tinkerbelle by AnnMaria De Mars