Archive for the ‘Teaching Math’ Category
February 19th, 2010
by Casey in Elementary teachers, Life at DreamBox Learning, Teaching Math
As DreamBox Learning’s Director of Marketing Programs to schools I spend most of my days working with school districts, principals, curriculum advisers, math coaches, and classroom teachers who are using DreamBox in their schools and districts. I introduce them to DreamBox Learning, answer their questions about our lessons, program, and curriculum, help them roll out [...]
Tags: K-2 math, Math games, teacher resources
January 27th, 2010
by Sue in Math Learning, Teaching Math
Highlights from the DreamBox Parent Survey on Math Education
Recently, because we are always interested in parents’ opinions and experiences, we asked parents of DreamBox users how they feel about a number of issues related to their children’s education. We conducted a survey asking about learning activities at home, how math and literacy are taught in [...]
Tags: math education, parent survey
January 19th, 2010
by Sue in Math Learning, Teaching Math
If you were unlucky enough to miss Mickelle Weary’s session at FETC, you missed a lively discussion about the value of using manipulatives in the classroom.
Mickelle is one of DreamBox Learning’s nationally board certified teachers. She was invited to speak at FETC because, together with the other teachers at DreamBox, she’s been instrumental in developing [...]
Tags: FETC, FETC 2010, Virtual manipulatives
December 21st, 2009
by Becca in Elementary teachers, Teaching Math
When we developed DreamBox Learning K-2 Math, our teachers and our software developers collaborated to create online tools that are uniquely suited to teaching math. These virtual tools grew out of the classroom experiences of our board-certified staff teachers, who know that physical manipulatives help students better understand essential math concepts and build knowledge through [...]
Tags: DreamBox Teacher Tools, Virtual manipulatives
December 8th, 2009
by Casey in Online Learning, Teaching Math
Since DreamBox released the first in our series of new free Teacher Tools last month we’ve had a remarkable interest in them, with hundreds of teachers using them in hundreds of lessons!
The first in the series of DreamBox Teacher Tools we launched were the Quick Images: Identifying Amounts™ tools – a virtual mathrack, a tenframe, [...]
Tags: DreamBox Teacher Tools, Snap Blocks, Virtual manipulatives
November 9th, 2009
by Sue in Online Learning, Teaching Math
At DreamBox our passion is bringing math to life for all students! So we have created math resources for teachers – free teacher tools with 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, [...]
Tags: DreamBox Teacher Tools, Open number line, Virtual manipulatives
November 9th, 2009
by Casey in Public Education, Teaching Math
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 [...]
Tags: Kentucky Center for Teachers of Mathematics
October 23rd, 2009
by Sue in Elementary teachers, Teaching Math
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 [...]
Tags: DreamBox Teacher Tools, mathrack, numbergram, tenframe, Virtual manipulatives
October 19th, 2009
by Sue in Elementary teachers, Teaching Math
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 resources for teachers to help students visualize a concept in more concrete terms, and to link new ideas to prior knowledge. Now, [...]
August 3rd, 2009
by Aja in Middle School and Beyond, Teaching Math
A friend pointed me at this TED talk: Arthur Benjamin's formula for changing math education. In it a mathematics professor questions the assumption that after algebra and geometry students should take calculus.
June 9th, 2009
by Nigel in Public Education, Teaching Math, Technology
A recent newspaper article on drafting Common Education Standards had me thinking about screws, widgets, standard gauge railways and whether even those politicians with the best of intentions really get what it means to provide a child with an appropriate - and timely - education.
Tags: Math education crisis, math help, Public Education, Teaching Math
May 20th, 2009
by Nigel in Elementary teachers, Life at DreamBox Learning, Math Learning, Teaching Math, Technology
The genesis of how DreamBox does assessment, and one of the reasons I am with the company, occurred over 30 years ago when one of my relatives was diagnosed with a learning disability.
This surprised us and shocked his teachers, who considered him to be in the upper middle to top third of the class for math. His test scores consistently supported this. In many areas he was significantly ahead of his peers. Yet a detailed examination with an expert showed that for him division just didn't compute. Put another way, his brain simply wasn't "wired for division".
Tags: Early learning, learning disabilities, Life at DreamBox Learning, Math Learning, teaching kids
May 4th, 2009
by Becca in Teaching Math
In honor of Teacher Appreciation Week, we celebrate 10 great teachers from the past and present.
Tags: Anne Sullivan, Dr. Randy Pausch, famous teachers, Math Learning, teacher appreciation week
April 2nd, 2009
by Casey in Elementary teachers, Life at DreamBox Learning, Online Learning, Teaching Math
This was a very exciting week at DreamBox Learning. When we launched DreamBox K-2 Math we heard from hundreds of kindergarten, first and second grade teachers around the country...
Tags: DreamBox Math Classroom, first grade math, kindergarten math, Math Learning, Online Learning
March 28th, 2009
by Mickelle in K-2 Curriculum, Math Learning, Parenting, Teaching Math
Did you know that we beta-tested DreamBox Learning with 5 different releases before making it available to the public? Along with each release came a plethora of feedback. Feedback that is vital to building a product that teaches and engages...
Tags: K-2 Curriculum, Math Learning
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