7 Generation Games intern, Aaliyah, sheds light on our new game, "Disaster Deduction Detectives."
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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
It's been a week since our beta release. I'm so excited to tell you about how the first week went.
The EdHeads Show and Needing Navajo Voices
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Hispanics Who Have Led The Way in Math
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Parental Un-involvement: Designing Lessons that Students Can Do With Minimal ...
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Three Videos We Love that Teach Equivalent Fractions
Did you know that teachers work an average of 12-16 hours a day? According to EdTech, teachers are expected to arrive to school an hour before class starts and stay after school for up to five hours for mandatory meetings, grading tests, papers and projects, and as volunteers for school […]
16 Hour Days? Teacher Resources Make Things Easier
We believe all schools should be using educational video games in their classrooms and we offer up three reasons why. Gaming provides significantly greater soft skill development. Watch kids play an engaging video game. They will fail time and time again, and yet they repeatedly go back into the game to […]
Three Reasons Why All Schools Should Use Games
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Throwback Thursday: No Wonder Kids Hate Math
Going through our archives, we came across this great post from May 27, 2011 “The Rumors of Our Sucking at Math Have Been Greatly Exaggerated” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. Question authority. Whenever I hear authoritative statements made that don’t fit […]
Throwback Thursday: The Rumors Of Our Sucking At Math Have ...
1 Happy Freebie Friday! Before you get caught up in the rush of Thanksgiving travel and holiday stress, take a few minutes out of your day to reenergize your brain! Whether you’re a fan of math or word searches, you’re in for a treat as we offer up a math word […]
Freebie Friday: Math Terms Word Search
5 Happy Freebie Friday! If you’re exhausted from a long week at school or work, take a few minutes out of your day to reenergize your brain! Today’s #FreebieFriday are two math mini-games for Adding 6 to 10 and Adding by 7’s. Answer the problems correctly and you’ll be rewarded with […]