2 NIEA is the best place to learn about Native American education but also has great session for anyone working in schools.
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2 I’ll be part of two presentations at the National Indian Education Association this week on involving Native American youth in developing video games. (I’m also doing a third presentation on the impact of Native control on vocational rehabilitation services.) Developing Educational Technology with Native Youth Annette Mennem and AnnMaria De […]
Game design with Native youth: Catch up at NIEA!
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
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
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
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
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 […]
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User support and big fat liars
1 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
3 “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
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
I love staying up late grading papers – said no teacher, ever! How DARE I mention student progress reports when it’s only the first week of school? Get student progress reports in seconds I’m serious. You can watch the video below and see how you can register as a teacher […]