Great way to build student engagement for differentiation
Community Review for DreamBox Learning Math
My Take
I love the fact that student engagement is high, if you restrict the games for the low level environments it is a great tool to differentiate instruction. My only problem with the software is that it does not provide explicit instruction of the content. Instead if students constantly get it wrong it provides manipulative options and repeats the process, students do not really know what they are doing at times but they have memorized patterns in order to pass certain lessons. I also would love if there was a higher emphasis on mathematical fluency for the 4 core operations.
How I Use It
I used it during my math block in order to differentiate instruction for 15 minutes a day. I also used assign focus in order to assign lessons that targeted the standard that was taught in class.