Instructional Philosophy
At DreamBox Learning, we believe all children can become proficient mathematical thinkers when their learning environment is engaging, individualized, and responsive to their developing mathematical ideas and strategies.
An engaging learning environment
DreamBox leverages game mechanics to tap into students' love for playing games and learning online. It provides a learning environment with math-based virtual manipulatives to develop number sense and mathematical concepts. Students are appropriately challenged at their level to develop conceptual understanding, computational fluency and problem-solving.
Individualized instruction
We understand the challenges of teaching students who develop mathematical understanding differently, which is why we designed our Intelligent Adaptive Learning™ platform to deliver millions of pathways to students based on continuous assessment of their choices. In addition to analyzing answer choices, DreamBox develops an understanding of how students arrive at those answers and adapts to a student's individual learning style.
Responsive to developing ideas and strategies
Great teachers know when to offer hints or alternative styles of instruction, based on each student’s work and learning style. DreamBox acts as a partner in the classroom by adjusting the number and type of math problems students see in the curriculum and providing just the right amount of scaffolding and encouragement a student needs based on their answers and problem-solving stratgey. Learn more about DreamBox's effectiveness.
Building a foundation for future success
Developed by our board-certified teachers with leading mathematics education experts, including Skip Fennell, Cathy Fosnot, and John Van de Walle, DreamBox incorporates the best practices for math instruction. DreamBox Learning’s instructional philosophy is built around a rigorous math curriculum, aligned with Common Core State Standards. It builds conceptual understanding and fluency in the critical areas of number and operations, place value, and number sense. So students have the foundation they need to succeed. Learn more about the DreamBox curriculum.
