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Did you know that we have 5 different games for Making Camp! Follow our Pinterest board to get notifications on new games, videos, clipart and more about MAKING CAMP! Making Camp Ojibwe Recommended Grades 3-5 Math: Multiplication and Division History: Ojibwe (Chippewa) , Plains Indians In Making Camp, players practice […]

Making Camp Games for everyone

11 Oct, 2019 in 7GenGames / Educational Games by Daniel Mondaca

At 7 Generation Games we try to make things easier for teachers, at least as much as we can. With that said, we created a video where you get a general overview of 7 Generation Games after purchasing a classroom or school license. You bought the games, now what? Well, […]

Making Life a Bit Easier

7 Oct, 2019 in Educational Games / Teachers tagged Educational Games / teachers by Diana Sanchez

5 carts x 12 robes - Use this example to create your own word problem — STANDARD — If your school or district uses Common Core, below is the exact standard addressed. (Even you use some other standards, I bet you still teach multiplication!) Interpret products of whole numbers, e.g., interpret 5 × 7 as the total number of objects in 5 groups of 7 objects […]

Have students make their own word problems

1 Oct, 2019 in Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

Do multiplication word problems hurt your brain? — In a previous post, I discussed the importance of repetition for memorizing multiplication facts. I also noted that repetition doesn’t have to be tedious. Students can use games that teach in a variety of ways and strengthen both recall and recognition memory, as well as teaching those multiplication facts in […]

Solving Multiplication Word Problems with Our Software

30 Sep, 2019 in Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

At 7 Generation Games, we want to use Augmented Reality (AR) technology with math. In our AR games, children see numbers come to life! They can also listen to the pronunciation of each number in English and Spanish, along with their writing in both languages too. Nowadays speaking more than […]

Increase Student Innovation with Augmented Reality

30 Sep, 2019 in 7GenGames / Bilingual Education / Educational Games by Daniel Mondaca

Pyramids are a likely icon on a time line — If you’re a teacher, you probably know that time lines are actually a Social Studies standard, not math. However, that seems like splitting hairs to us. We’re all about teaching math in context and we know from experience that many students struggle with timelines that have dates before the year […]

Lesson Plan: Timelines

20 Sep, 2019 in Educational Games / History / Seventh Grade / Sixth Grade by Daniel Mondaca

Were you wishing that you could pull out the videos in our educational games for use in your lesson plans or classroom presentations? Teachertube is a social network that allows you to have and share videos, audio, and documents that have been created by users in the education field. Unlike […]

Free videos, lesson plans and student progress reports for teachers

17 Sep, 2019 in Educational Games / Educational Resources / Teachers by Daniel Mondaca

User support can be messy — User support is everyone's job in a small company, but I'm happy to do it. Help requests mean people are actually using our software.

User support and big fat liars

16 Sep, 2019 in Educational Games / Game Progress / Start-up Diaries 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

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

No matter where you are, there is a unique, universal and knowledgeable language of all. This language crosses cultural and language barriers and helps us to better understand our environment. That language is called “Mathematics.” There are many reasons why knowing math is important. It helps us calculate dimensions, prices, […]

A WORLDWIDE LANGUAGE

9 Sep, 2019 in Bilingual Education / Educational Games by Daniel Mondaca

Spirit Lake: The Game can help start college preparation in middle school — “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

3 Sep, 2019 in Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

3/3 = 1 : Converting a fraction when adding and subtracting fractions with a common denominator — 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

31 Aug, 2019 in 10 Minute Lesson / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Fifth Grade / Fourth Grade / fractions / Mathematics tagged Common denominator / like denominators / multi-step problems / word problems by AnnMaria De Mars