Games That Make You Smarter

Monthly Archives: January 2018

Making Camp is a game that teaches multiplication and division — In our game, Making Camp, players get to create their own virtual wigwam while learning math and social studies. The game also includes videos that focus on math terms and problem-solving strategies, areas that teachers and parents say students need extra help in. Making Camp features cultural videos that teach […]

Making Camp is now available on Android Phones!

January 31, 2018 in 7GenGames / Cultural content / Educational Games / Game Progress by Hannah Wren

If you are a regular visitor to our site, you might be thinking, “This looks different.” (Depending on when you happen to drop in, you might be politely adding in your head, “And bit of a mess.”) If it’s your first visit to our page, you might be thinking the […]

Please Pardon the Mess: New Site in Progress

January 30, 2018 in 7GenGames by Maria Burns Ortiz

consulate of Chile — Santiago, Chile In six days, I’ll be on a flight to Santiago. I picked up my visa at the Consulate of Chile this week and I’m good to go. I’ll be working on a game modeled on our best-selling title, Making Camp. (Not sure if “best-selling” is the right word, […]

Disrupting Ageism (and Education) in Chile

January 28, 2018 in AnnMaria / Educational Games / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

Google scholar badge — I applied for the Grow with Google Scholarship because I’ve forgotten more programming than a lot of people know. That’s just my problem, though, I’ve forgotten things. While the last time I coded an array in JavaScript was last week, it’s been at least a couple of years since I […]

Why Grow with Google When I’ve Forgotten More Programming than ...

January 25, 2018 in AnnMaria by AnnMaria De Mars

So you’re here to learn how to live without math? I’ll explain how you can do so! You need to get to work by 9 am. Let’s say you are 10 miles away. Do you leave right at 8:50? I hope not. Because you obviously don’t know your math. And […]

How to Live a Life Without Math

January 24, 2018 in Math by Irma Barcena

jaguar in jungle with text asking what happened to the other 2 students — If you want to see everyone in our office roll on the floor laughing simultaneously, come in and tell us that you have an idea for an educational game but you need us to promise we won’t steal it before you tell us what it is. You clearly have zero […]

How hard is teaching math? Let me count the ways.

January 24, 2018 in AnnMaria / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

We had someone write us a harshly worded Facebook message the other day, excoriating us for using this image. They were appalled, apparently, that in AzTech – a series of games about Central American and U.S. Latin American history – we would include the conquistadors. Now, mind you, the game […]

How History Works

January 23, 2018 in 7GenGames / Cultural content by Maria Burns Ortiz

Eva wearing her shades and drinking a Roy Rogers — First of all, I want to say I was wrong when, years ago, I said our American students were not that bad at math. I based this incorrect statement on: The fact that rankings on standardized tests are ordinal. So, just like the person who comes in 14th in the […]

Why you (and your kids) still suck at math: Part ...

January 22, 2018 in AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM by AnnMaria De Mars

Maria and AnnMaria — “There’s no history of anything happening until it does. And then there is.” When we were writing “My Fight/Your Fight,” our editor asked if we wanted to start with an epigraph – or quote/sentence/saying to start the book. Ronda knew immediately what she wanted that quote to be – the […]

Making Our Own History

January 16, 2018 in Start-up Diaries by Maria Burns Ortiz

Before you get all up in arms, we are keeping the interns we have, but we don’t have the budget for any more at the moment. However, we have work that needs to be done, particularly in sales and marketing. I talked to a few of our investors recently and […]

The Debate: Unpaid Interns or No Interns ?

January 14, 2018 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars