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1 TL; DR Our app gave the correct answer 99% of the time. So we spent days creating a new app to teach multiplication in English and Lakota that is 100% accurate. Dennis wrote a script to check the answer produced when you hold the phone over one of the cards […]
When 99% isn’t good enough for our students
3 “The place you are to occupy in the universe is the space where your greatest passion meets the world’s greatest pain.” Rachel Crosby Is there anything more painful than giving up on your goals in life? Too many times, I have seen students drop out of college or change majors […]
College preparation starts in middle school
Students often struggle with multi-step problems for a lot of reasons. In my experience, the most common one is they stop too soon. For example, in the first lesson below, the student may add up the fractions of the rice gathered by each of the two sisters and stop there. […]
Adding and Subtracting fractions with a Common Denominator: Multi-step problems
I love staying up late grading papers – said no teacher, ever! How DARE I mention student progress reports when it’s only the first week of school? Get student progress reports in seconds I’m serious. You can watch the video below and see how you can register as a teacher […]
Student Progress Reports
2 We'll be giving six conference presentations over the next seven weeks, in North Dakota, South Dakota & Minnesota.
On the road again – conference season!
If you teach math, you are well aware of how essential it is that students learn basics such as multiplication and division. Of course math shouldn’t be all about rote memorization but if you believe it is a waste of time for students to memorize 9 x 7 = 63 […]
Teaching multiplication: Lesson Plan
STANDARD: Understand a fraction a/b with a > 1 as a sum of fractions 1/b AAGH! It’s August and almost back to school time. Maybe you are that super-teacher who has everything ready. For the rest of you mere humans, who wish you could have a lesson plan together in just 10 minutes, have […]
Introducing Fractions : Lesson Plan
In today’s episode of Startup Travel , Latinas in Tech or Where in the World are the Founders …. I’m writing this from the Pacific Surfliner, the train that runs between Los Angeles and San Diego. Being an American living on the west coast, every single time I go to […]
UnidosUS: Trains, planes and social impact startups
Our Teachers Pay Teachers site gave us some surprising insight on teachers Did I just say teachers too many times in the same sentence? When people ask me what makes us different at 7 Generation Games, I often reply, because we understand something … Schools exist outside of the Silicon […]
Four Things Teachers Pay Teachers Taught Us
Have you ever read an article where you think the author was reading your mind because it said all of the things you have been thinking? This happened to me lately in, of all places, the Harvard Business Review blog. The title of the article was “We are all Enron […]
The Golden Rule of Business
10-minute lesson on primary sources Have your students watch the following two videos back to back. Not the galloping buffalo, the video below that. These two videos together are great resources for a lesson on the value of primary sources. Becoming a Buffalo Hunter How did you learn to hunt […]