Posts Tagged ‘Virtual manipulatives’
January 19th, 2010
by Sue in Math Learning, Teaching Math
Mickelle Weary at FETC: “Using Virtual Manipulatives to Support the Development of Number Sense”
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 [...]
January 15th, 2010
by Sue in Educational Software Market, Elementary teachers, Technology
FETC 2010 Pictures – Team DreamBox at Booth 1305
FETC has been a whirlwind of fun and learning so far – exactly what DreamBox is all about! We here at Booth 1305 have been busy demonstrating our awesome math games, answering questions on virtual manipulatives, and meeting some of the biggest names in education technology. It’s been a blast!
January 11th, 2010
by Sue in Educational Software Market, Elementary teachers
DreamBox Will Be at FETC This Week: Booth 1305
We’re very excited about being at FETC (Florida Education Technology Conference) in Orlando this week! It’s one of the largest conferences dedicated to educational technology, and we look forward to meeting many teachers, administrators, and technologists.
We’ll be in booth 1305—there will be a lot going on in the booth and we hope you’ll come by, [...]
December 28th, 2009
by Mickelle in K-3 Curriculum, Start-up Culture
Schools Are on Winter Break, but DreamBox is Not!
At DreamBox we’re capitalizing on school vacation! For two days, we invited DreamBoxers who live near our offices to sit side-by-side with our teachers and developers and be the first to try our newest lessons and games. This is the first major step in testing our new virtual manipulatives developed by DreamBox only for our [...]
December 21st, 2009
by Becca in Elementary teachers, Teaching Math
Introducing Another Free DreamBox Teacher Tool – Match-n-Make: Identifying Pairs™
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 [...]
December 17th, 2009
by Mickelle in Elementary teachers, Math Learning
Up, Up & Away to FETC!
FETC lures thousands to over 200 education technology sessions
At DreamBox we’re getting ready for FETC, one of the largest, most successful conferences in the United States devoted to educational technology. Four DreamBoxers are looking forward to handing out squishy brains, tattoos, and lots of candy to those that join us in our booth and play [...]
December 8th, 2009
by Casey in Online Learning, Teaching Math
The Newest Free DreamBox Teacher Tool – Snap Blocks: Determining Equality™.
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, [...]
November 9th, 2009
by Sue in Online Learning, Teaching Math
The Latest Free DreamBox Teacher Tool: Open Number Line: Developing Number Sense™
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, [...]
October 23rd, 2009
by Sue in Elementary teachers, Teaching Math
Now Teachers Can Get DreamBox Teacher Tools Free!
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 [...]
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