AnnMaria De Mars

Daniel — If a picture is worth 1,000 words, an educational video should be worth at least 10,000, don’t you think? So, what’s videopalooza? Do you have enough time to make videos for your class? In my life, whether I was teaching middle school math or multivariate statistics to graduate students, I […]

Videopalooza! A video is worth 10,000 words

10 Mar, 2019 in 7GenGames / Educational Resources by AnnMaria De Mars

We have come a long way with math games, from our start with Spirit Lake: The Game. I will never be able to say thank you enough to the teachers at Turtle Mountain and Fish Lake for helping us with our very buggy first version. How you like me now? […]

How a math game evolved on an American Indian reservation

26 Feb, 2019 in 7GenGames / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games 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

Children with iPads and cards — What do you do on snow days, rainy days and just days when your kids seem to have a little too much energy to sit still? How about a scavenger hunt where they run around and learn their numbers in Spanish and English all while learning how to use an […]

Counting Scavenger Hunt: Ten-Minute Lesson

19 Feb, 2019 in 10 Minute Lesson / Educational Games / Educational Resources by AnnMaria De Mars

Our first app for pre-school age and up teaches counting in English and Spanish. Kids will love seeing virtual numbers pop up in their real world in this new app from 7 Generation Games and Strong Mind Studios. Bring numbers to life in two languages in this interactive augmented reality […]

Introducing Counting by 2 Languages

18 Feb, 2019 in Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Teachers 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

Pass and Fail are antonyms — An antonym is a word that means the opposite of another word. Watch this video to learn all about antonyms. Adjectives can have antonyms. So can adverbs and verbs . Did you know that sometimes you can make a word into its antonym just by adding a prefix? Don’t know […]

Ten minute lesson: Antonyms

11 Feb, 2019 in 10 Minute Lesson / Fifth Grade / Fourth Grade / Teachers by AnnMaria 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

Do you ever feel like you aren’t making progress in your efforts to teach students, improve schools, develop curriculum or whatever it is you are doing? I’ve been feeling like that for the last year, but then today I realized that we have more than doubled the number of […]

Better Education (Better Anything) Happens One Minute at a Time

2 Feb, 2019 in Educational Games / Educational Resources / Game Progress / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

Zombies — Think we couldn’t fit zombies into a video on math terms? Ha! You underestimate us! Sometimes students get a problem wrong not because they don’t know the answer but because they don’t understand the question. What is the difference between 210 and 11 ? Well, one is a three-digit number […]

Math Terms with Zombies: Ten-Minute Lesson

28 Jan, 2019 in 10 Minute Lesson / Educational Resources / Fifth Grade / Fourth Grade / Mathematics / problem-solving / Teachers by AnnMaria De Mars