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Time Spent Learning Your Culture is of the Essence Several years ago, Dr. Erich Longie and I participated in an analysis of the National Indian Education Study database where we found that the more native youth learned their culture and language in school, the worse their math scores. This finding […]

Include Native American Culture in Your Math Class

November 12, 2020 in AnnMaria / Cultural content / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Game Progress tagged Native American heritage month by AnnMaria De Mars

grandfather — When we started 7 Generation Games, our lead cultural consultant, Dr. Erich Longie, told me that the solution was to include Native American culture as part of math, and vice versa. As he said to a student, “Of course our ancestors used math! We were a nomadic people! Do you […]

Where does Native American Culture fit? Everywhere!

November 9, 2020 in 7GenGames / Cultural content / Education: Innovation and STEM tagged newsletter by AnnMaria De Mars

Math problem — Many times, a student understands two-digit multiplication or division with remainders but still has difficulty solving a problem. Students need to be taught problem-solving strategies We all know how it important it is to keep students engaged and that’s why we have lots of free teacher resources for you, including […]

How to solve a problem: In Spanish and English

September 28, 2020 in Cultural content / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Resources tagged Hispanic Heritage Month by AnnMaria De Mars

The following 7 Generation Games are Chromebook compatible. MAKING CAMP: OJIBWE (Grades 3-5) In Making Camp: Ojibwe, players practice multiplication and division skills while learning math problem-solving strategies. They’ll also be introduced to Ojibwe history. Earn points by solving math problems and answering social studies questions in the village-building […]

Get 7 Generation Games on Chromebook

June 15, 2020 in 7GenGames / Bilingual Education / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Math by Maria Burns Ortiz

Spirit Lake has multiplication word problems — In nearly 30 years teaching and consulting on American Indian reservations, I’ve seen a dismaying number of failures to provide a good education. In the movie, Mask, the mother of a boy with a noticeable physical disfigurement is trying to register him for middle school. The principal says, Perhaps a […]

Failing Native American students: Let me count the ways

May 11, 2020 in AnnMaria / Cultural content / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Resources tagged Native American heritage month by AnnMaria De Mars

World's Largest Pheasant I met on Innovation Corps tour — Interviewing outstanding educators as part of the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps we found three needs stood out.

What day is it? NSF I Corps Week 2-3

February 12, 2020 in Education: Innovation and STEM / Start-up Diaries tagged Innovation Corps by AnnMaria De Mars

As you may know, 7 Generation Games is part of the National Science Foundation I-Corps program! If you didn’t know, you can read this post “We’ll never sleep again NSF i-corps begins” where you’ll find more details. We want you to be part of this 7-week journey where our team, […]

Level Up: Level 1! New Web Series

February 12, 2020 in 7GenGames / Education: Innovation and STEM / Reality Show tagged STEM by Daniel Mondaca

Eva feeding a giraffe — 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

January 27, 2020 in AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Resources by AnnMaria De Mars

Spanish video on timeline — 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

January 23, 2020 in 7GenGames / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Resources by AnnMaria De Mars

Native American dancers at EPICS conference — I think all special education needs more math, but today I’m at the Native American special education conference, EPICS, so let’s talk about that. It’s a good conference, not least of all for the entertainment, and I’m already planning to come back next year. I went to some good sessions […]

Native American Special Education Needs More Math

November 12, 2019 in AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM / Special Education tagged Native American heritage month by AnnMaria De Mars

Beaded ear ring — Is there such a thing as Native American math? Of course! Math is in every culture and adding Native American content to your math class is easy.

Native American Culture in Math

November 7, 2019 in AnnMaria / Cultural content / Education: Innovation and STEM tagged Native American culture / Native American heritage month by AnnMaria De Mars

Augmented reality app for teaching multiplication — 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

September 9, 2019 in Code Talk / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games tagged augmented reality by AnnMaria De Mars