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Julia in 7 Generation Games hat — It takes a lot and I mean A LOT to get myself motivated to basically do anything as evidenced by the fact that my Motivation Monday is getting published on Saturday. Why? I don’t know. My mom would also like to know, but sorry it’s just how I’m wired I […]

Intern Diaries: Getting Motivated to Learn

January 26, 2019 in 7GenGames / Intern Diaries / Start-up Diaries by Julia De Mars

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from March 29, 2015 “What I Learned Lately” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. I’m not much of a stop and smell the roses type of person. […]

Throwback Thursday: What I Learned Lately

January 24, 2019 in AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged 7 Generation Games / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

spaghetti — Word Problems are Hard for Many Students. Here’s one way to make these easier I don’t care how old you are, word problems can confuse you. This is particularly true when you have a lot of extra information. That’s what the world is like, though. When you need to figure […]

Ten-minute lesson: Problem-solving tip for word problems – Start at ...

January 24, 2019 in 10 Minute Lesson / Division / Fourth Grade / Mathematics by AnnMaria De Mars

giraffe — If Janie had 3 avocados and Frank owns 2 giraffes, how many hippopotamuses does it take to make it rain for 6 days? Do word problems ever make you feel like this? Many students who have no problem with “What is 12 x 4?” get stuck when the question involves […]

Build a model: Ten minutes on problem-solving

January 23, 2019 in 10 Minute Lesson / Fourth Grade / Mathematics / multiplication / problem-solving by AnnMaria De Mars

Label the terms 512/2 =256 — Quick! Which one is the dividend and which is the divisor? Unless, you have learned, or taught, division fairly recently, I bet you had to to think about it for a while. Maybe you don’t even know. Here is a video to help learn the quotient from the remainder. This […]

Division Terms: What really trips students up in learning division

January 22, 2019 in 10 Minute Lesson / Division / Fourth Grade / Mathematics / Teachers by AnnMaria De Mars

Julia in a boat on the Thames River — by Julia De Mars I’ll be honest here, I have a very hard life. I’m studying for a semester in London, England, a horrible and uncultured place. Hate it. I have met too many great people already, like seriously go away I have things to do- games to test! There […]

Interning Abroad

January 20, 2019 in Intern Diaries / Start-up Diaries by Julia 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

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from February 17, 2014 “Somebody Else’s Dream” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. When I get some time next year, I’m planning on writing a book on […]

Throwback Thursday: Somebody Else’s Dream

January 17, 2019 in AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged AnnMaria / Parenting / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

This post could be labeled Part 1 of 873 but I don’t have that much time. Here is the back story … I decided to teach a more or less introductory statistics class this semester because we make educational games and I think it is important to be in the […]

OMG I Know Why Teachers Don’t Use New Technology

January 13, 2019 in AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM by AnnMaria De Mars

Excited children about to play our games — Did you miss me? So much has been going great lately – and to be honest semi-great but a lot of work – that I have barely had the chance to breathe, much less write . Here’s AnnMaria’s version of a Christmas letter. (Note to self: find out if Chileans […]

The tip of the iceberg of awesomeness: My company Christmas ...

January 12, 2019 in AnnMaria / blogposts / Education: Innovation and STEM / Game Progress by AnnMaria De Mars

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

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from January 9, 2015 “Sometimes You Need to Move On” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. Somebody can be the best coach in the world but that […]

Throwback Thursday: Sometimes You Need to Move On

January 10, 2019 in AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez