DreamBox Math Student Experience: Lesson Icons & Incentives in the K-2nd Grade Environment

As students complete lessons, story tasks, and entire story paths they will encounter several different lesson types and incentives, symbolized by various icons. This article summarizes the different icons students may see in the K-2nd grade environment and what they signify.

Lesson Icons

When students open a lesson path, they will see several lesson icons. As students complete lessons, the lessons and icons along their learning path may adjust.

What do the lesson icon colors mean?

A lesson icon circled in yellow is a recommended lesson. Students should focus on completing recommended lessons.

A Green circle and checkmark indicates the student completed the lesson.

Note: The green circle does not indicate if the student completed the lesson with understanding.

A lesson icon circled in orange is a lesson that had been recommended in the student's learning path. As the student continued to play and demonstrate their understanding, the lesson was reclassified as optional and the yellow circle was updated to orange.

What do assigned lessons look like?

A starred calendar icon indicates the lesson is part of a short-term DreamBox Math assignment.

If a student isn't seeing a short-term assignment in their lesson path but they do see a backpack, they should click the backpack to collect the incentive item, and the lesson path will refresh to show the assigned lesson.

A multi-day calendar icon indicates the lesson is part of a long-term DreamBox Math assignment.

If a student isn't seeing a short-term assignment in their lesson path but they do see a backpack, they should click the backpack to collect the incentive item. The lesson path will refresh to show the assigned lesson.

Lesson Icon FAQs

Q: What do the numbers on lesson icons mean?

Lessons may include a number in the bottom-right corner. Numbers are added if two or more lesson icons use the same image, so students do not mistake them for duplicate lessons.

Q: What does it mean when a lesson icon doesn't have a number?

A lesson icon that does not include a number means there are no other lesson icons using the same image.

Learning Incentive Icons

While working on lessons, students earn tokens, find Adventure Friends, and discover additional incentives based on their current story theme.

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Backpacks

Backpacks hold the rewards that students earn as they play. When a student clicks a backpack that appears in their learning path, they could collect:

Tokens
Adventure Friend cards
Story task confirmation icons

We recommend students focus on yellow lessons to fill in any gaps in comprehension.

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Tokens

The tokens a student earns can be spent on the math-based games in the Arcade. Students can see their total tokens at the top of their screen, or view their piggy bank in My House.

Click here to learn how students can open My House and see their piggy bank.

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Adventure Friends cards are fun character cards students earn as they play through story paths in each theme. Students can earn ten cards per theme, and collect 40 cards overall. Students can view their adventure friends cards in My House.

Click here to learn how students can open My House and see their Adventure Friend cards.

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Example Story Task Icon

There are six task icons inside each story path, symbolized by empty image shapes. When students complete all the lessons in a lesson path, they complete a story task. The task icon appears and they watch a short movie that shows how the characters in the story complete the task.