The DreamBox Math Learning Blog

With a bunch of kids coming over for turkey next week, I thought it was time to find some math turkey jokes. But let’s be honest: they’re mostly about pi, and once you’ve heard one pi joke the rest are all pretty similar.
Q: What is the area of pi?
A: pi R^2?
R: Pie are not square. [...]

Dinosaurs are fascinating for many kids, and DreamBox kids are no exception!
When students play DreamBox, they can choose from a number of different adventures with a Dinosaurs theme. They can join silly Professor Pickles, Dr. Kim, Hasan, and Misha as they explore a museum and travel to the time of the dinosaurs. While they’re there, [...]

How many kids want to be paleontologists when they grow up? Or can even pronounce the word? This little one wants to be a paleontologist because paleontologists “study bones.” And then he goes into a spiel about paleontologists finding a “really big bone”. No bones about it, this video is adorable! Watch it below.
Good luck [...]

At DreamBox our passion is bringing math to life for all students! So we have created free Teacher Tools – interactive virtual manipulatives that any teacher can access free to support math learning in the classroom.
Research suggests that using virtual manipulatives can help students develop a richer understanding of concepts, even more than using physical [...]

DreamBox recently presented at the Kentucky Council of Teachers of Mathematics (KCTM) conference in Paris, Kentucky.  We were excited to be invited by our friends at the Kentucky Center of Mathematics (KCM) to present at and attend the conference, and it was wonderful to have a chance to meet personally with classroom teachers and Math [...]

See the video from our kids contest that had the DreamBox team in stitches. When asked about their dreams, kids say the cutest things. This little girl wants to be a nurse practitioner and mom, “because nurse practitioners check hearts and make people feel better. And moms have babies.”
Words don’t do justice to this video. [...]

OK, Halloween is behind us, and we have the bowl of left-over candy in our kitchen to prove it. But one of our ace QA engineers is really good with a carving knife apparently. We wanted to share her handiwork with you!

Can you believe it’s almost November? If you can’t wait for Turkey Day, get ready with zany holidays and activities on our new November math activity calendar. We’re kicking off this month with turkey jokes and fun math activities!
Turkey jokes
Asked to write a composition entitled, “What I’m thankful for on Thanksgiving,” little Timothy wrote, “I [...]

When kids play DreamBox Learning K-2 Math, they explore the DreamBox Adventure Park, an amazing place where kids go on many different adventures as they solve problems and learn math! Students choose their adventures from four themes: Pirates, Pixies, Dinosaurs, and Pet Friends. The DreamBox themes, stories, and adventures were inspired by suggestions from kids [...]

What do a musician, dentist, and geologist have in common? They all use math! Watch our latest Dream Big video and see our mini-musician before he makes it to the big time. Warning: this video may tug at your heart strings.

Throughout the development of DreamBox Learning K-2 Math, our teachers and developers collaborated to develop innovative (and in many cases patent-pending) tools that are exactly suited to teaching the early numeracy concepts students need to learn. These virtual manipulatives are web-based tools that help students more easily grasp math concepts in visual terms, and give [...]

Understanding abstract concepts is crucial to being successful in math, but some ideas are difficult to grasp and sometimes kids struggle to learn them.
Many educators agree that “manipulatives” are among the best math teacher resources to help students visualize a concept in more concrete terms, and to link new ideas to prior knowledge. Now, with [...]

Maybe you didn’t think it was possible. But yes, you can have an enjoyable Halloween and be healthy and earth conscious. Let’s make the year’s most spooktacular holiday a “Green Halloween®” by showing the importance of reducing sugary sweets and being environmentally friendly.

Ever since I shared a few favorite math jokes a few months back, people keep asking me for new ones. And with Halloween coming, they seem to be multiplying(!) — so here are a few more, with a seasonal flavor. If you like these pumpkin math jokes, check out our Pumpkin Math Activities Calendar.
Pumpkin Math [...]

In honor of the most common birth date in America on October 5th, the birthday paradox is an interesting experiment for students to learn about probabilities of a pair. Beware. Some of these statistics are beyond the typical “pumpkin math” exercise, but everyone should still be able to walk away with the general idea of how the birthday paradox works.