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Monthly Archives: October 2015

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

Going through our archives (but not too far back), we came across this great post from November 22, 2013, “What’s The First Thing You Tell Students About Statistics?” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. I’m looking forward to teaching my first masters […]

Throwback Thursday: What’s The First Thing You Tell Students About ...

October 29, 2015 in 7GenGames / Throwback Thursday tagged AnnMaria De Mars / statistics / students / Throwback Thursday by Erick Salomon

Boy from game, killed by bear — Having raised four teenagers and taught hundreds of others, I’m very familiar with their brand of honesty. You might think that I would not be thrilled to get a game review from one, but … It was 7 pm, a couple of hours before I normally knock off working, and […]

Drake Defeats Apathy

October 29, 2015 in AnnMaria / Educational Games / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

Kids playing game — Anyone who has spent any time around kids knows that they don’t sugarcoat anything. Here’s what they said when we gave a few of them an opportunity to play 7 Generation Games and then asked them what they thought. I’m in Utah for the penultimate (I just like being about […]

Would You Want to Play This Game? (Spoiler: It’s an ...

October 29, 2015 in Uncategorized by Maria Burns Ortiz

coffee — How much money do you need? Once you’ve reached a threshold where you can provide for the basics of food, clothing and shelter, extra dollars really don’t buy you much happiness. This is a finding that isn’t completely without its detractors but I have found it to be largely […]

How to Find Money to Run Your Startup

October 28, 2015 in Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

1. Don’t be a sole founder. When I was a sole founder, at the very beginning of establishing 7 Generation Games, I thought this was unreasonable prejudice on the part of investors. Now I see that they are 100% right. I cannot imagine how we could possibly make games and […]

5 Things I Learned from a Start-up Accelerator

October 23, 2015 in AnnMaria by AnnMaria De Mars

We are the mid point of the week again and for some it means that the weekend is coming up and you get to take time off work. Yay for you! Here at 7 generation games there are a few who don’t get a weekend off because we are making every […]

Tourist Visa Amazeballs^2

October 21, 2015 in 7GenGames / Game Progress by Marisol Schultz

doughnut — We spent the weekend updating our website and one of the really useful pages you’ll find is this one http://www.7generationgames.com/resources/fish-lake/powerpoint/ It has 16 different mini-lessons for teaching fractions, for example, showing how to divide 2 doughnuts among 3 people. If you need one more five-minute example or explanation on like […]

Teaching Resources: Mini-lessons for Fractions

October 19, 2015 in Education: Innovation and STEM by AnnMaria De Mars

Teacher with students — Someone recently asked us for our impact statement. We wanted to share it here as well. At 7 Generation Games, we’re building technology for a better world. Our goal is create affordable educational technology that benefits the lives of all students and is accessible to students from all socioeconomic backgrounds. […]

How We’re Working to Make an Impact

October 16, 2015 in Uncategorized by Maria Burns Ortiz

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

Going through our archives , we came across this great post from February 25, 2015, “Five Ways School Teaches You to Run a Start-up” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. “That’s academic.” is a term of dismissal. It means that the argument you just […]

Throwback Thursday: Five Ways School Teaches You to Run a ...

October 15, 2015 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries / Throwback Thursday by Jessica Holmes

bat — If you read this blog regularly, you’ll know that we are part of the Boom Startup Ed Tech Accelerator . We have successfully closed our first round of funding, but we have gained more than money from the experience. Don’t get me wrong, though, we do like money. Speaking of […]

Watch Your Money Because You Never Know

October 15, 2015 in AnnMaria by AnnMaria De Mars