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Counting by 2 languages augmented reality bilingual app screen — There are about 7,000 languages spoken around the world — and they all have different sounds, vocabularies and structures. But do they shape the way we think? Cognitive scientist Lera Boroditsky shares examples of language — from an Aboriginal community in Australia that uses cardinal directions instead of left and […]

People who speak different languages pay attention to different things

29 May, 2019 in Bilingual Education / Educational Games by Daniel Mondaca

Trail with tree, stream and other objects marking off quarters — 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

29 May, 2019 in AnnMaria / Educational Resources / Fifth Grade / Fourth Grade / fractions / Mathematics by AnnMaria De Mars

Room full of toys, games and random items scattered around — 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

26 May, 2019 in AnnMaria / Educational Resources / fractions / Math / Mathematics by AnnMaria De Mars

Swamp wallaby in a field — 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

25 May, 2019 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

Ojibwe (Native American) girl from math video

VIDEO – Using a number line in fraction problems

25 May, 2019 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Fifth Grade / Fourth Grade / fractions / Math / Mathematics / Teachers / video by Daniel Mondaca

How would you feel if you woke up excited on cold autumn mornings to go to school? That’s the dream that we have at 7 Generation Games. We want to give you lessons that make learning fun! But seriously, how can games make teachers’ lives easier? We have games that […]

We make teachers’ lives easier with educational games

22 May, 2019 in Bilingual Education / Educational Games by Daniel Mondaca

Fish Lake fractions game playing on Windows computer — Watch this video to learn what fractions have to do with fishing. You can apply fractions to almost everything! Actually, you can use fractions to discover whether your tribe, which depends on fishing, is going to die of starvation.

VIDEO – Fractions and Fishing

18 May, 2019 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Fifth Grade / fractions / Math / Mathematics / Teachers tagged Fish Lake by Daniel Mondaca

AnnMaria in woods in Chile — Some might say that gaming has a negative impact on kids’ ability to learn. But here’s some news – our games have a positive impact. Why? Because we make educational videogames that actually work. Check our published research below for the nitty-gritty details: The value of perseverance: Using Dakota culture […]

4 Benefits of Game-based learning

15 May, 2019 in 7GenGames / Educational Games by Daniel Mondaca

Numbers in AR app showing answer to 7 x 8 — 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

14 May, 2019 in AnnMaria / Educational Games / Math by AnnMaria De Mars

7 Generation Games continues to grow! We’re excited to announce that we are establishing an office in the Twin Cities in July 2019. This office will serve as our sales and marketing hub. Our development team will remain in Santa Monica and our Latin American operations will continue in Santiago, […]

7 Generation Games Expands Operations to the Twin Cities

8 May, 2019 in 7GenGames by Maria Burns Ortiz

Numbers pop up in Math: The Universal Language Lakota — Math x Language = Fun in this first of its kind AR app in English and Lakota! Tradition meets tech in this engaging new way to learn. Numbers spring to life in English and Lakota using this augmented reality app to practice multiplication and learn numbers in two languages! The […]

Introducing Math: The Universal Language AR – Lakota

8 May, 2019 in 7GenGames / Bilingual Education by Maria Burns Ortiz

calculator made of chocolate — 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 […]

Teacher Appreciation: Putting our Money Where our Mouth Is

8 May, 2019 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria by AnnMaria De Mars