Posts Tagged ‘online math games’

Win a mathematical adventure for your child! Enter the SuperKids Sweepstakes for a chance to win a 3-month subscription to DreamBox Learning - a $38.85 value. The contest ends April 30, 2009 so now's the time. To enter, simply fill out the form provided through the link above (information will not be shared) and a winner will be randomly selected. It could be you!

World Maths Day (or World Math Day) was a smashing success. There were 2,001,570 total participants from 204 countries and a world record of 452,681,681 total questions answered in 48 hours. Congratulations, mathletes. What a wonderful math game!

I’m a member of a large online community of moms where we often discuss the ups and downs of raising kids in a digital age. Recently another mom posted a question wondering if exposing kids to video games at a young age leaves them ‘no time to think’. After working with teachers and schools that are using DreamBox in the classroom I think it is dangerous to lump all 'video games' into one negative category for kids. One of the benefits of raising children today is that there are many ways that technology is advancing learning, even for very young kids.

As a teacher I often used software in the classroom. Much of this software relied on me to determine the appropriate starting place in the curriculum. Every year I’d add my class list and determine which objectives I wanted to address for each student. Often I’d do this in August as part of my preparation for the new school year, which means I hadn’t even met the kids. Plus, we all know about the loss of knowledge retention that occurs over the summer. How was I supposed to know what each student did and didn’t need?

The DreamBox Adventure park is a magical place where kids can choose which adventures they would like to explore. You have the choice of four themes, all of which are available to DreamBox players.

As we get closer to launching DreamBox Learning’s first product, an online adventure game that teaches serious math, and we see more and more kids in beta testing, we’re realizing how many advantages there are to online learning games.