Personalizing the K-8 Math Experience: Increase Student Engagement and Achievement

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Learn how DreamBox Learning supports educators and students, inspiring deep mathematical thinking in all K-8 students by pairing learner motivation and adaptive technology with rigorous, standards aligned curriculum. The result is a learning environment that students love, coupled with data that supports teachers and administrators. DreamBox offers an instructional design that empowers kids to really think about what they are learning. This design delivers personalization by allowing each student to forge a unique pathway to truly understand math. Math curriculum that pairs conceptual understanding with fluency connects students with complex ideas in ways that paper and pencil never could. It brings math alive for kids through powerful, purposeful engagement. In a college and career focused society, students are continuously applying and utilizing skills attained to demonstrate mathematical mastery and DreamBox builds this foundation.

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Personalizing The K-8 Math ExperienceIncrease Student Engagement & Achievement

Neal ManegoldProduct Manager | DreamBox Learningnealm@dreambox.com | @nealmanegold

DreamBox Learning K-8 Math

Intelligent Adaptive Learning™ Engine• Millions of personalized learning paths• Tailored to a student’s unique needs

Motivating Learning Environments• Student Directed, Empowering• Leverages Gaming Protocols

Rigorous Mathematics Curriculum

• Aligned to CCSS, TEKS, Virginia SOL, Canada WNCP, & Ontario Curriculum

• Built to achieve on Standards for Mathematical Practice

CCSS Standards For Mathematical Practice

CCSS Standards For Mathematical Practice Student Engagement

Engagement Is Empowerment

Learning is not accomplished by putting thoughts into a mind, but rather by empowering a mind to generate thoughts.

When children gain language fluency, every utterance is a hypothesis to be tested. Students engage in a constant feedback loop with those around them.

Why should learning Mathematics be any different?

How Can We Engage Students?

An understanding is a learner realization about the power of an idea.Understandings cannot be given; they have to be engineered so that learners see for themselves the power of an idea for making sense of things.

p. 113, Schooling by Design, Wiggins & McTighe, ©2007

Engagement Through Realization

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1 Ten=

10 Ones

Is This Student Engaged?

10

1/3 ÷ 5/7

=

1/3 x 7/5

Is This Student Empowered?

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Learner Realization

“Let me explain how a mathematician

thinks.”

“I’ve shown you the mathematical

structure, now go use it.”

Delivering Instruction

“As you independently solve this problem, you’ll

be thinking like a mathematician.”

“On your own, you’ll need to look for the structure, and then

you’ll use it.”

Engaging With Learning Experience

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• What incorrect answers would we expect on a problem like 67 + 26?83 Student does not regroup to the tens place813 Student adds columns from left to right6,726 Student combines both addends21 Student adds all as single digits41 Student believes this is a subtraction

problemA master teacher would respond differently to 83, 813, and 6,726.

Technology should, too.

Measuring Achievement

Achievement Through Modeling

Achievement Through Strategic Thinking

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Learning Environment Grades K - 2

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Learning Environment Grades 3 - 5

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Learning Environment Grades 6-8

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