Games That Make You Smarter

AnnMaria De Mars

multiplication is the inverse of division - demonstrated with horses — This is the first in a multi-lesson unit designed to assess student mathematics proficiency by playing games that teach about Indigenous cultures that have embedded math problems. It also requires students to create their own math activities and math problems.

Math Assessment and Indigenous Cultures

September 11, 2022 in Educational Games / Math / Mathematics by AnnMaria De Mars

Dennis and me with green martini and green wine — starting the new year, a newlywed couple, a founder starting up a company or an athlete working with a new coach, the secret to your success is the same - relationships.

The Secret to Success – at Everything

September 3, 2022 in 7GenGames / Founders Corner by AnnMaria De Mars

Taro field — Even non-poetry lovers will love this site that includes a map and history of First Peoples, told through poetry. Introduction by Joy Harjo.

Sites we love: Map of First Peoples Poetry

June 17, 2022 in Educational Resources tagged poetry by AnnMaria De Mars

Art gallery — Whether you are counting down the last days of the school year or trying to come up with ways to keep your summer school students awake and on task, Google Arts & Culture is a gem. Visit museums virtually, tour national parks, even re-create ancient pottery.

Sites we love: Google Arts & Culture

May 20, 2022 in Educational Resources / Fifth Grade / Seventh Grade / Sixth Grade by AnnMaria De Mars

alejandro — 5 ways Growing Math makes summer school prep easy- 1. Supplemental lessons that are both engaging and standards-aligned, with all the resources you need included. 2. Educational games with standards-aligned content that students can play in class or at home for remediation, reinforcing a concept or a reward for getting their work done early. 3. An entire summer school course of the Growing Math lessons. You'll be amazed how quickly you can pull this together. 4. Include more diverse perspectives in your classroom, from Latino history to Dakota culture, integrated with math and language arts 5. Self-paced teacher training that can be done in as little as 15-minute increments

Feeling unprepared for summer school? Let Growing Math help you

May 15, 2022 in 7GenGames / blogposts / Educational Games / Mathematics / Newsletter / Teachers tagged Growing Math / Growing Math Training / Math / Math Resources / Summer / summer learning / Summer Learning Loss / Summer Resources / summer slide / summer vacation / Vacation by AnnMaria De Mars

deer skin, bow and other trading items in a clearing — "Why are you working on a game that was done years ago? Why on earth would you be happy about that?" This is a question I get asked by everyone from investors to teachers to random people sitting next to me on an airplane. Here are 4 answers to that question.

4 reasons why Making Camp Lakota updates are a good ...

May 10, 2022 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Game Progress by AnnMaria De Mars

Making Camp Dakota — Whether you want the world to learn about the importance of turtles, cultural differences in bead work design or how to compute quartiles of temperature readings, you can make a game for it.

Think your game idea can’t happen? Think again.

May 3, 2022 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / blogposts / Customized Games / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Founders Corner / Newsletter tagged Custom video game development / Customized development / Video Games / Women that make video games by AnnMaria De Mars

Woman in front of an RV — Every organization has knowledge they want to share with the world and games are a great way to do it. Not everyone has the capacity to make educational games - that's where we come in.

What knowledge do YOU want to share with the world?

April 20, 2022 in 7GenGames / Customized Games / Educational Games / Founders Corner by AnnMaria De Mars

Star quilt with red, yellow and green — Teaching with Primary Sources Network is a site we love because of the practical lessons, discussion and wealth of topics. It's only flaw is with SO much content you sometimes can get lost.

Sites we love: 3 reasons to check out Teaching with ...

April 8, 2022 in AnnMaria / Educational Resources / Mathematics / Teachers tagged Teacher Resource by AnnMaria De Mars

The Goldilocks of Instruction Whether you call it differentiated instruction, accommodating individual differences or any other name, we all want the same thing – to deliver instruction that benefits our students, that is, not too easy. not too difficult but just right. Teaching middle school, it was not uncommon for […]

Differentiated Instruction with Growing Math

February 16, 2022 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Newsletter / Special Education tagged differentiated instruction / holistic instruction / inclusion / Special Education by AnnMaria De Mars

wigwam with items earned in iit — From non-readers to high school students who are a few years below grade level in math, here are ways to use 7 Generation Games to accommodate special needs in your classroom.

Using Growing Math Games with Learners with Special Needs

February 16, 2022 in 7GenGames / Bilingual Education / Educational Games / ESL / Newsletter / Special Education tagged differentiated instruction / inclusion / Special Education / special needs by AnnMaria De Mars