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find an equivalent fraction to 2 out of 5 fish — Equivalent fractions are different fractions that name the same number. The numerator and the denominator of a fraction must be multiplied by the same nonzero whole number in order to have equivalent fractions. The presentations and videos below provide multiple explanations and examples. Using Equivalent Fractions on a Number Line I really like this PPT […]

Math Lesson – Equivalent fractions

7 Aug, 2019 in 10 Minute Lesson / Educational Resources / Fifth Grade / Fourth Grade / fractions / Math / Mathematics / Sixth Grade / Teachers tagged comparing fractions / equivalent fractions by Daniel Mondaca

Introducing fractions can be done with anything , like that 2/8 of these snakes are brown — 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

6 Aug, 2019 in 10 Minute Lesson / Educational Resources / Fifth Grade / Fourth Grade / fractions / Mathematics tagged examples of fraction problems / introducing fractions by AnnMaria De Mars

Train to San Diego — 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

2 Aug, 2019 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries / Women in Tech tagged Latinx startups / social impact startups / UnidosUS by AnnMaria De Mars

Learn time rate distance problems with grandma — Time-rate-distance problems are word problems that involve the distance an object will travel at a certain average rate for a given period of time. This type of problem drives many students crazy. That’s why we find it so helpful to have multiple examples. Okay, maybe this is a 15-minute lesson, […]

Time-rate-distance problems : 10-minute lesson

29 Jul, 2019 in 10 Minute Lesson / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Mathematics / Seventh Grade / Sixth Grade tagged distance problems / time rate distance problems by Daniel Mondaca

You can use doughnuts to teach adding fractions — 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

25 Jul, 2019 in Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

Pinterest is a cool social media platform to share images, videos and even teacher resources through boards predefined by the user. In the beginning, it was very popular for recipes, but over the years Pinterest has become more than that. Nowadays, you can find everything you could imagine on it. […]

FREE RESOURCES on our Pinterest

24 Jul, 2019 in 7GenGames / Educational Resources by Daniel Mondaca

Learn division with refrigerator magnets — Intern Diaries contribution from Irma Barcena I remember in kindergarten, I would give my mother my work and she would hang it on the fridge. It varied from art and colored pictures. As I got older, it became assignments and tests where I did well, and eventually only the As […]

From papers on the refrigerator to division magnets

23 Jul, 2019 in Division / division / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Fifth Grade / Fourth Grade / Intern Diaries / Math / Mathematics by Julia De Mars

girl in pit — For kids, summer vacation is about being carefree. But for parents, the months off may be cause for concern. Studies have shown that most students lose the equivalent of two months of math skills over the summer. Lower-income students also lose two months of reading skills over the break. When kids […]

How summer break can make you dumber

22 Jul, 2019 in 7GenGames / Educational Games by Daniel Mondaca

Everyone has biases. “But wait Sabrena, what do biases have to do with checking yourself?” Well, let me tell you. I’m sure we’ve all heard the phrases “check yourself before you wreck yourself” and “take a look in the mirror before you judge anyone else.” As much as we try […]

Checking Myself Before I Wreck Myself

22 Jul, 2019 in Bilingual Education / Intern Diaries tagged education / intern diaries by Sabrena Youngerman

Learn Cloud page of Making Camp Ojibwe resources — As you already know by the title of this post, we are officially part of LearnCloud If you don’t know what LearnCloud is, let me tell you about it and how awesome the people behind it really are. LearnCloud is powered by the Rumie Initiative, a non-profit from Canada. They […]

Hurray! We are officially on LearnCloud

18 Jul, 2019 in 7GenGames / Educational Resources by Daniel Mondaca

“Let me know if there’s anything I can do…” How many times have you said this to someone? Almost all of us say it, and we usually mean it. Or at least, we mean it to an extent. But how often do we actually ask people to do anything for […]

7 Generation Games “CAN DO”

12 Jul, 2019 in Educational Games by Maria Burns Ortiz

Summer is here, it’s time to sit back and relax! There might be a lot of things that you want to do, places to go, and friends to see. During the summer break it’s common to lose some of what you’ve learned while in school. A student loses nearly 2.6 […]

Statistics Don’t Lie – Summer Slide

12 Jul, 2019 in Educational Games by Daniel Mondaca