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Fish Lake — The good news to report to you is that Fish Lake Adventure is now in the app store for iPad. All of you who have asked for our game that teaches fractions to be available for iPad, here it is! It also teaches Ojibwe history and culture. Let me tell […]

At what age can your children know fishing and hunting ...

14 Apr, 2019 in AnnMaria / Educational Games / Educational Resources by AnnMaria De Mars

Staff with no unicorns shirt — A week ago, I wrote about how, despite heroic efforts on the part of many teachers and administrators and some success stories, the problems I see in education today are the same as when I began teaching in Banning and Riverside, CA almost 35 years ago. If nothing changes, nothing […]

How to change education: Rant part 2

8 Apr, 2019 in AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM by AnnMaria De Mars

view from airplane window — When releasing 2 games isn’t what took most of my time this month, you know it has been crazy busy. Start a company so your time is your own, they said… Shaking my head so hard I think it will fall off. We DID release two games that got overshadowed […]

9 cities, 2 games & Wrestlemania

3 Apr, 2019 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

girl in pit — For the past several weeks we have been criss-crossing the country talking to teachers and administrators. Thank you immensely for all who took the time to meet with us, attend our workshops and visit our booths at conferences, from Long Beach, California to Spirit Lake, North Dakota. If you still […]

Nothing changes in education when nothing changes

30 Mar, 2019 in AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM by AnnMaria De Mars

Last post, I talked a little bit about why students are not learning math. So, my question here is, how much do you care? No, this is not another rant on how kids would all learn if their teachers cared more, but it is a serious question. Unless you are […]

How Much Do You Care if Your Kids Learn Math?

22 Feb, 2019 in AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / Math by AnnMaria De Mars

unamused teenager — When I went to the National Conference on Education last week, one question I wanted answered was , “Why are students not learning math?” I came away with two, related answers. One is that many middle school students have a lot of mental health and substance abuse issues – both […]

I think I know why your students aren’t learning math

21 Feb, 2019 in AnnMaria / Math by AnnMaria De Mars

The session I most wanted to attend at the National Conference on Education was on addressing opioid abuse. It did not disappoint as the presenter, Dr. Ember Conley provided not just a lot of information I didn’t know but also tangible steps that communities can take. She also gave a […]

Steps to Stopping the Opioid Epidemic: Lessons from NCE

14 Feb, 2019 in AnnMaria / Conferences by AnnMaria De Mars

Attention! This throwback post is all the way from 2014! Can you imagine? I do not remember that far back, but I barely remember last year and this one has only just begun so what we learned today is I have a poor memory. But we can learn even more […]

How to be better at anything

7 Feb, 2019 in AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday by Julia De Mars

Our team in Chile — How did adding team in Chile lead to an explosion in productivity in the U.S. ? That doesn’t even make any sense, does it? Listen and learn. I came to Santiago as part of Start-up Chile, leaving our U.S. office with 2/3 of the co-founders. We spent a good bit […]

Start-up Diaries: Everything works out differently than you expect

7 Feb, 2019 in AnnMaria / Game Progress / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

3d numbers — Okay, that’s an old joke, but I really do have a problem. We place some really unrealistic expectations on teachers, and people who teach math and English get the worst end of it in my experience. I teach statistics and that means that I’m going to assume students have some […]

Of course I have problems, I’m a math teacher

5 Feb, 2019 in AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM / Math by AnnMaria De Mars

kids playing at Hotel Transylvania display in the metro station — This is a more recent “throwback” from a post written by Ann Maria in August 10, 2018. However, it seems very relevant to anyone travelling or debating travelling this year of 2019. I, Julia De Mars, personally related to this surprisingly a lot since I seem to move just when […]

Throwback Thursday: The thing about moving is you bring yourself ...

31 Jan, 2019 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries / Throwback Thursday by Julia De Mars

Maybe you’ve heard that a stolen iPhone is nothing more than a brick. Stop and read this. It may save you whole lot of grief and panic. Perhaps you feel as if your data is safe. You have a password and it’s not 123456. You have find my iPhone. […]

No, a stolen iPhone isn’t a brick: How thieves access ...

27 Jan, 2019 in AnnMaria by AnnMaria De Mars