What’s New!

DreamBox has added valuable lessons to develop students’ conceptual understanding and accelerate growth. The new Build and Solve word problems, written for 3rd and 4th graders, make traditional word problems interactive and allow students to choose a context that interests them. To solve the problems, students apply strategies they’ve learned in related DreamBox lessons. New K-2 measurement lessons build students’ understanding of distance as a linear measure using standard units and common tools, like a yard or meter stick. In the 8th grade Transform with Tables geometry lesson, students transform shapes on a grid to protect a ranch’s herd from predators.

DreamBox Learning has added Illustrative Mathematics K-5 (IM K-5™) to its Assign by Print feature, which allows educators to assign lessons in DreamBox by academic program. Educators can now create assignments in DreamBox that are aligned to the IM K-5 curriculum, which was released for school year 2021 – 2022. This addition complements DreamBox’s established alignment with the Illustrative Mathematics 6-8 curriculum.

Teachers can send custom notes or pre-written messages of encouragement, goals, or reminders to an individual student or an entire class. Students can initiate their own conversations and reply to their Teacher by choosing from pre-written messages such as, “I need more time to be successful at this,” and “I’m feeling pretty good about this.” Students can also react to messages with an emoji for a quick check in. To support more situations, students using DreamBox in Spanish will automatically see all pre-written messages in Spanish, and students with reading difficulties can hear messages read aloud.