ked students to select their favorite photo they took yesterday, crop it as they saw fit and share with me on One Drive and/ or email to me. The point of this lesson was to learn about file-sharing, photo editing and emailing attachments.
AnnMaria
1 It’s been a great start to the summer session teaching game design at Warwick Middle School. Students started off playing two math games, an adventure game and a collector game. We discussed the idea of game genre and what is needed to make a video game – assets, code, story […]
Teaching Game Design at Spirit Lake
Dates on the calendar are closer than they appear! I know you just got out of school a week ago, or maybe you still have a few days to go. Lesson plans to teach statistics are the last thing you want to think about. Trust me, you’ll thank me later. […]
Resources to Teach Statistics in Elementary and Middle School
We're testing educational software in the most remote areas of the country. It's beautiful but it's also important work, remembering schools most companies forget about.
Testing educational software where the antelope play
You can do a surprising amount of development on the road, but it tends to be an all-or-nothing situation. There are still large parts of the country where wi-fi is non-existent.
Development on the Road Trip
It's impossible to get the attention of teachers and administrators for the next few weeks, so we are going on a road trip testing our educational software under remote conditions. If you are in Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, South Dakota or North Dakota and want to meet up, let us know.
Dennis and AnnMaria’s Excellent Adventure Road Trip
Teaching division isn’t easy. It requires practice from the students and patience from the teacher. There are always students who don’t get it the first time so you need more examples. Maybe students are limited in English so you need some explanations in Spanish. We’ve got you covered with several […]
Division lesson plans for the year in one hour
Seriously, there's more to teaching fractions than pizza. Fractions are the first abstract concept most students learn and they can struggle to understand the concept. So, here are 10 minutes of animated videos, with explanations, definitions and a range of examples.
Teaching Fractions in 10 minutes
You don’t want to think about math lesson planning – or anything else school related – for at least a month I understand math lesson planning is the last thing you want to think about right now. Whether you’ve just finished the school year or you have a few more […]
Next year’s math lesson planning done in a day
Should you move to another country, found another company, live away from your husband or all of the above? Should you apply for Startup Chile? I’ve been asked this question by a couple of people recently and here is my answer. Startup Chile was a great experience and although I […]
Advice on life, marriage, startups and Chile
I cannot emphasize enough the importance of algebra As a professor, I saw SO many students enter college with high hopes, only to run into the obstacle of their first college level math course. One of two things happened. Either they dropped out of college altogether when they found out […]
Step 1 in getting your child ready for algebra
I didn’t need a special week to tell me that Sister Marion, Mr. Cartwright and Dr. Eyman had a positive impact on my life. They were my teachers in sixth-grade, eighth-grade and in my Ph.D. program and not coincidentally, all of them were math teachers. Most of us, no matter […]