Many years ago I met a teenage girl who said she wanted to go to the Olympics . I had visited her club a few times, practiced with her and gave her a few tips about competing and training. One day, when I took off my judo gi after practice […]
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Did you know that many cities have a popular event called “Fuck Up Nights”? That’s where entrepreneurs talk about their failures. The general idea is that there are problems with only studying success. One problem is that many people in the startup world suffer from depression. They are always hearing […]
Stupid Ideas I Have Had
Welcome back to another Freebie Friday! It’s the end of the week and that means that you get an awesome freebie. Today’s freebie is a math video from Forgotten Trail. The math video “Find the Average” teaches you how to find the average using a cool little tune to help […]
Freebie Friday: Find the Average
Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from January 13, 2015 “Education is More Important than World Titles” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. I love Ronda Rousey as much as the next person does. In […]
Throwback Thursday: Education is More Important than World Titles
Welcome to our 7 Generation Games Book Club! Don’t worry, this isn’t one of those book clubs where you join, don’t finish the book and then have to sit around in a group pretending you read it, debating things like what “the vase of flowers” really symbolized. The 7 Generation […]
Books We Love: The Lost City of the Monkey God
1 Can we stop with all the events and sessions for women and minority – especially minority female – founders on “Empowerment” and “Finding Your Voice”? Every day, I get email invites to or see social media posts on how women and minority entrepreneurs can “build their businesses.” The other day, […]
Less Pep Talks, More Money: How to Support Female Founders
I’m going to change this story slightly because I don’t want to call out a specific person when I have seen the same thing over and over from “STEM” or “STEAM” or “STREAM” programs. Generally, the more letters they have, the bigger problem it is. I agree with everything Ms. […]
We’re Totally Missing the Boat on Math Education
It’s the end of another week and you know that means…it’s time for the Freebie Friday. Today’s freebie is from Making Camp and it’s a powerpoint presentation and pdf on writing out numbers and what they represent. This PPT and PDF come from our video “Write out numbers with Super […]
Freebie Friday: Write out the Numbers and What They Represent
Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from September 18, 2015 “I So Suck at that Don’t Worry Be Happy Thing” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. I can’t think of many things in […]
Throwback Thursday: I So Suck at that Don’t Worry Be ...
Maria and I have been told many times, “You guys should write a book on parenting!” So, we did. It is an ebook, 87 pages for $1.99 so less than 3 cents per page for brilliance like the following: BUY HERE: Get Parenting Like I Know What I’m Doing for […]
You should write a book on parenting
In case, you’re not the why/how kind of person and you just want to get right to the what part, we make bilingual games. Here they are: Want to know more about the why/how? Read on… From English-language learners to immersion schools to language classes, bilingual education plays an important […]
Just Press Play/Jugar
I go to quite a few conferences but the National Indian Education Association is one of my favorites because they fit with my idea of how education should be. I go to mathematics conferences that are all about –Â you guessed it – mathematics, and technology conferences that are focused […]