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gardens in Fish Lake — As CEO of 7 Generation Games, I am proud and humbled to be able to announce that we have received funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to create a new learning platform, specifically aimed at helping meet the needs of Indigenous students and the educators working to serve these communities.

Announcing Growing Math Project to Meet Immediate Educational Needs of ...

November 12, 2020 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Cultural content / Educational Games / Events / Newsletter / rural education / Start-up Diaries / Teachers tagged Growing Math / newsletter by Maria Burns Ortiz

Time Spent Learning Your Culture is of the Essence Several years ago, Dr. Erich Longie and I participated in an analysis of the National Indian Education Study database where we found that the more native youth learned their culture and language in school, the worse their math scores. This finding […]

Include Native American Culture in Your Math Class

November 12, 2020 in AnnMaria / Cultural content / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Game Progress tagged Native American heritage month by AnnMaria De Mars

Native American man sitting — I was super-excited to have had the chance to speak at Minot State University on how we use Native American culture to teach math. In analyzing our data, one key issue we found was PERSEVERANCE. That is, students simply give up when it gets the least bit hard. It wasn’t […]

Using Native American Culture to Teach Math

November 3, 2020 in AnnMaria / Educational Games / Math tagged Native American heritage month by AnnMaria De Mars

A "fascinating and fiery" interview with Dr. AnnMaria De Mars, World Judo Champion and owner of 7 Generation Games.

AnnMaria De Mars – World Judo Champion, Professor & Entrepreneur ...

July 24, 2020 in AnnMaria / Educational Games / podcast tagged Business / entrepreneur / Podcast / Start-Up by Christy Hanson

Finding Success in Data-Driven Entrepreneurship with Dr. AnnMaria De Mars – President Data Futurology Podcast host Felipe Flores catches up with our president, Dr. AnnMaria De Mars! Podcast Listen now | Duration 48:02 | Recorded on June 16, 2020 Life experiences, judo principles, and pure grit. “In this episode,” Flores […]

Data Futurology Podcast #119 with Dr. De Mars

June 18, 2020 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Educational Games / podcast by Christy Hanson

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from August 1, 2014 “My House is Dirty but my Conscience is Clean” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. Now that all of my kids are doing […]

My House is Dirty but my Conscience is Clean

May 29, 2020 in AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

Spirit Lake has multiplication word problems — In nearly 30 years teaching and consulting on American Indian reservations, I’ve seen a dismaying number of failures to provide a good education. In the movie, Mask, the mother of a boy with a noticeable physical disfigurement is trying to register him for middle school. The principal says, Perhaps a […]

Failing Native American students: Let me count the ways

May 11, 2020 in AnnMaria / Cultural content / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Resources tagged Native American heritage month by AnnMaria De Mars

This spotlight on AnnMaria was recently included in the April 2020 AARP Purpose Prize Alumni Newsletter. Alumni Spotlight: Meet AnnMaria De Mars 2019-2020 Fellow President/Co-founder, 7 Generation Games Education’s the door to a better future, but it’s one closed to most low-income children. Without crucial math and literacy skills […]

Meet AnnMaria De Mars – AARP Purpose Prize Alumni Spotlight

April 7, 2020 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria tagged 7 Generation Games / AARP Purpose Prize / AnnMaria De Mars by Diana Sanchez

Choice screen with option of números and sociedad — If you actually ARE a bilingual teacher, you may already know what I’m going to say. In that case, read on to nod in agreement and feel superior. For me, this was one of the many things about education that only seemed obvious after I learned it. Our software was […]

Why Bilingual Teachers Need Our Bilingual Software

January 30, 2020 in AnnMaria / Cultural content / Educational Games / Educational Resources by AnnMaria De Mars

Eva feeding a giraffe — You may be a native speaker or your Spanish is limited to “margarita”. Either way, if you have Spanish-speaking students in your class, you have a bilingual classroom. I’m going to assume that you want all students in your classroom to be engaged and learning. If not, hopefully, you quit […]

Teaching statistics in your bilingual classroom

January 27, 2020 in AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Resources by AnnMaria De Mars

Flight 1 of 13 in NSF Innovation Corps Program — What exactly is the Innovation Corps? Why is AnnMaria not returning my calls/ emails / meeting requests? Will Maria, AnnMaria and Juliana ever sleep again? Which of them lives at LAX Terminal 7 and which in the Delta terminal at MSP? Read on to have all of these questions answered. […]

We’ll never sleep again. NSF I-Corps Begins

January 26, 2020 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars