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Bring lessons to life with FREE DreamBox Teacher Tools!

You don’t need to buy DreamBox to use these free virtual manipulatives

At DreamBox we’re dedicated to bringing math to life for all students. So we’ve created these free Teacher Tools — virtual manipulatives that can be used in large- or small-group instructional settings. You can use these math tools — tenframes, mathracks, and other innovative tools — with your interactive white board or projector to make math lessons clear for your whole class, or even on your computer for smaller groups.

Match-n-Make: Identifying Pairs™


Ideas for using the DreamBox match-n-make tool
Choose a match-n-make lesson:
Match-n-Make 8
Match-n-Make 9
Match-n-Make 10
Match-n-Make 15
Match-n-Make 20
Match-n-Make 50 (multiples of 5)
Match-n-Make 50
Match-n-Make 100 (multiples of 10)
Match-n-Make 100 (multiples of 5)
Match-n-Make 100
Match-n-Make 200 (multiples of 10)
Match-n-Make 200 (multiples of 5)
Match-n-Make 200
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Using the match-n-make tool, you can provide opportunities for students to develop efficient strategies and computational fluency. For example:
  • Call on students or teams to give a match. Ask others to use hand signals to indicate if they agree or disagree with the match before clicking the second number
  • Have the teacher or a student choose a starting card and challenge the class to find the match
  • Ask students to explain their strategies for finding matches

Quick Images: Identifying Amounts™


Ideas for using the DreamBox quick images tools
Choose a quick images lesson:
Numbergram from 4 to 10
Tenframe from 4 to 10
Tenframe from 11 to 20
Tenframe from 21 to 40
One-Wire Mathrack from 4 to 10
Two-Wire Mathrack from 11 to 20
Two-Wire Mathrack from 4 to 20 (displayed as doubles)
Ten-Wire Mathrack from 20 to 100 (multiples of 10 only)
Ten-Wire Mathrack from 21 to 50
Ten-Wire Mathrack from 41 to 100
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With the quick images tools, students can conceptualize numbers as groups and investigate number relationships. For example:
  • Organize and analyze visual images in mathematical ways
  • Understand spatial relationships
  • Describe patterns and shapes using number relationships and mathematical vocabulary
See the tenframe tutorial
See the mathrack tutorial

Open Number Line: Developing Number Sense™


Ideas for using the DreamBox open number line tool
Choose an open number line lesson:
Open Number Line
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Using the interactive open number line, you can support the development of number sense and computational fluency. For example:
  • Skip count and represent students’ strategies
  • Envision numbers as the magnitude of distances on a line, as equivalent quantities, and by their proximity to landmark numbers
See the open number line tutorial

Snap Blocks: Determining Equality™


Ideas for using the DreamBox Snap Blocks™ Tool
Choose a Snap Blocks lesson:
Level 1, using numbers 1-20
Level 1, using numbers 5-100 (multiples of 5)
Level 2, using numbers 1-20
Level 2, using numbers 5-100 (multiples of 5)
Level 3, using numbers 1-20
Level 3, using numbers 5-100 (multiples of 5)
Level 4, using numbers 1-20
Level 4, using numbers 5-100 (multiples of 5)
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The Snap Blocks™ tool can help develop strong understanding of equality and relational thinking. For example:
  • Understand the meaning of the equal sign and the concept of equivalence
  • Explore relational thinking: observe and use numeric relationships between the 2 sides of the equal sign rather than computing amounts
See the Snap Blocks™ tutorial