June is the season of graduations and a milestone time of transitions. Many of our DreamBox learners are moving on from elementary classrooms into the new social and intellectual world of middle school. With the tools of earlier learning under […]
Summer is coming around again. Those three sparkling months of playground, beach, ball games, nature hikes, reading outside on warm days with a foot dangling in a cool blue pool––and significant loss of learned math skills that teachers dread having […]
We have to keep moving forward in our classes, but there are just instances when kids have missed something along the way—either through an absence, or just not “getting it.” With DreamBox, I can have fifth grade students that don’t understand place value review and understand at their own pace. DreamBox helps to fill those educational gaps at the exact time and place that each child needs it … certainly something that I cannot provide for every student during our classroom time
Amy Bolting, Fifth Grade Math Teacher
Alvin Elementary School
I teach an intervention class of students on the autism spectrum who look forward to playing DreamBox every day. As visual learners, being able to physically move the virtual manipulatives around on the screen has allowed them to see and really understand math concepts in a whole new way. After just 6 months using DreamBox last year, I saw even my most math resistant students' move from below basic on the CMA to basic or proficient.
Angela Snow, 3-5th Grade Inclusion Specialist
Faith Ringgold School of Arts & Science
