Each student learns math a little differently. Certain concepts may take more time for a student, while they grasp other concepts more quickly. Our adaptive learning software adjusts pacing to address these differences.
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How Does DreamBox Math Adapt?
In DreamBox Math, it's not just about right and wrong answers and how quickly each student gets there. Students can get to a correct answer from multiple conceptual approaches. Some of those approaches are more advanced than others and represent a deeper understanding of the topic. If students complete topics without fully grasping them, conceptual gaps can form.
Our Intelligent Adaptive Learning™ technology tracks each student interaction and evaluates the strategies used to solve problems. It then immediately adjusts the lesson and the level of difficulty, scaffolding, sequencing, number of hints, and pacing as appropriate. This allows students, whether struggling, at grade level, or advanced, to progress at a pace that best benefits them and deepen conceptual understanding.
Where Can I Learn More About DreamBox Math?
- Click here to play sample DreamBox Math lessons across grade levels.
- Click here to learn more about how DreamBox Math aligns to your state or regional academic standards.
- Click here to explore DreamBox Math Professional Learning resources.
DreamBox Math FAQs
| Q: How does DreamBox Math support student learning through scaffolds, in-lesson hints, and explict instruction? |
A: Our goal is to guide students from supported discovery to independent mastery. In DreamBox Math we build scaffolding to help students explore patterns and relationships through manipulatives, number progressions, and guided discovery. DreamBox Math lessons are designed to scaffold thinking through interactive models and discovery, giving students the space to notice, experiment, and build intuition.
Explicit instruction in DreamBox Math clarifies and formalizes learning at key moments. We offer explicit instruction to formalize the ideas they've started uncovering. Rather than leading with direct teaching, we embed explicit instruction after student exploration. This affirms what students have discovered and solidifies student understanding.
| Q: Does DreamBox Math include printable worksheets for students? |
A: DreamBox Math does not include printable worksheets. As a supplemental digital product, we aim to support educators use of a core resource. As students practice tasks inside lessons they are supported with embedded feedback and hints.
| Q: Can students use pencil and paper while playing DreamBox Math? |
A: We do not encourage students to use pencil and paper while playing lessons in DreamBox Math.
Why is this?
Every algorithm and procedure is based on an idea. DreamBox Math encourages students to think conceptually about math ideas, representations, and skills so that they don’t come to incorrectly believe that math is simply a series of procedural steps. The manipulatives in DreamBox Math lessons are designed to help students think through concepts while remaining focused on the big idea. In most instances, when students use a pencil and paper during a DreamBox Math lesson they are not using the lesson tools. They may be following a procedure outside of the lesson vs using the manipulatives to solve the problem in the context of the lesson context.
Example:
- Before introducing students to the division standard (U.S.) algorithm in DreamBox Math, we first engage them in making sense of partial quotients and helping them see the need for efficiently choosing “friendly” partial products. For example: Students divide gum balls into a certain number of bags for packaging. If a student uses a pencil and paper for these division lessons, they aren’t learning the underlying idea.
- Even if students can execute the algorithm perfectly, they often don’t realize the underlying relationships upon which the algorithm is built. When students have trouble remembering the steps of the algorithm, it’s because the algorithm is an answer to a question they’ve never asked. The “steps” of long division are easy to remember when students understand the idea that they’re merely creating the most efficient partial quotients in a logical order based on place value.
- By not using a pencil and paper, we ensure students aren’t merely looking for an answer – they are engaging with, and understanding an idea that will make procedures and operations more meaningful to them.
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