Interviewing outstanding educators as part of the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps we found three needs stood out.
AnnMaria De Mars
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Teaching multiplication requires repetition and variety. Here's how our software can help.
Teaching Multiplication with Our Software
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
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
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
You have one student – or fifteen students – in your classroom who have Spanish as a first language. Maybe you don’t speak Spanish. Maybe you do but those 15 students are at 10 different levels, from proficient in English to only knowing how to say, “May I go to […]
Bilingual Resources for Any Teacher
I’ve written about the challenges of finding a mentor previously, Why the cool kids won’t hang out with you. Let’s be frank, if you are old and pumping gas, not too many people are interested in you as a mentor, but the last few years have been good here at The […]
The Social Politics of Mentoring
I know that each individual change is minor, but we are making thousands of little changes like this to Spirit Lake to make the game and math problems more integrated, so players don’t feel as if they are stepping out of the game to do the math. Get our free […]
Spirit Lake: Pictures worth 1,000 words
To add fractions there are three simple steps: Step 1: Make sure the bottom numbers (the denominators) are the same. Step 2: Add the top numbers (the numerators), put that answer over the denominator. Step 3: Simplify the fraction (if needed) We believe that children learn from multiple examples in multiple situations. I’m sure you, oh […]
Math Lesson – Adding like fractions (with a common denominator)
One thing I gained from judo was the importance of persistence. There are no doubt a lot of people who have better technique than me. They had better instructors who came from famous clubs, maybe even the Kodokan. I started at the Alton YMCA. There are probably lots of people […]
How judo taught me to avoid Startup Burnout
You’ll never convince me that multiplication tables are unnecessary If it hasn’t happened after over 30 years of teaching math, it’s probably not going to happen. Yes, we all have calculators on our phones. Before that we had calculators on our watches (anyone remember that?). You know what is faster […]