The DreamBox Math Learning Blog

If you missed our webinar earlier this month on Using Virtual Manipulatives to Jump-Start Your Common Core State Standards Math Implementation, you now have the opportunity to view this webinar on-demand. Webinar: Using Virtual Manipulatives to Jump-Start Your Common Core State Standards Math Implementation Duration: one hour Host: Casey Davidson, Director of Product Marketing at [...]

Welcome to a new school year! In order to simplify student login to the DreamBox Learning program from school and from home we have created a site-based Internet address for students that can be accessed 24/7. Every DreamBox school now has a personal DreamBox Learning site-based Internet address. To log in, students will click on [...]

Welcome to the Tuesday Teacher Tips series! Each week we’ll highlight teaching and learning resources, ideas to use in the classroom, as well as things to ponder as you go about your teaching day. Looking for ways to advance your mathematical understanding and teaching skills this upcoming year? Don’t overlook the National Council of Teachers [...]

There’s  just two days left to register for this free 60-minute webinar designed for K–5 educators preparing to support teachers in implementing the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSSM) in the 2011–2012 school year. Using Virtual Manipulatives to Jump-Start Your Common Core State Standards Math ImplementationDate: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 Time: 11:00 AM PDT to [...]

One of my coworkers here at DreamBox came across these fun posters by Brain Candy Toys. The posters take childhood stories and rhymes, and turn them into math equations. Print them and hang them up in yoru home or in your classroom for a fun activity! Three Blind Mice Humpty Dumpty     Cinderella Three [...]

DreamBox Learning is excited to announce the release of a new Common Core State Standards report which allows educators a real-time view of individual student progress against the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSSM). As students complete lessons in DreamBox, teachers can now access the Common Core State Standards Report directly from the DreamBox [...]

Welcome to the Tuesday Teacher Tips series! Each week we’ll highlight teaching and learning resources, ideas to use in the classroom, as well as things to ponder as you go about your teaching day. Use the book The Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown (Harper Collins Publishers, 1949) to create math poetry. Use the words [...]

Throughout my teaching career, I’ve found that an understanding of place value is often at the root of a student’s struggle with math. Some researchers say we introduce place value too soon, others say we don’t do it soon enough. The Common Core Math Standards tell us to begin place value instruction as early as Kindergarten [...]

Has DreamBox Learning transformed the way you’re students learn, and how you teach? Has DreamBox had a positive impact on your school or district’s math proficiency? If so, tell District Administration about it by nominating us for their Top 100 Products Award. Each year District Administration has readers nominate the products that have made a [...]

A teacher recently contacted me with the following issue: “What my students enjoyed about Dreambox initially was the fact that they’re given a variety of activities to choose from, the activities adjust to their skill level, and they don’t have to work on only one activity for long periods of time.  However, one of my [...]