DreamBox Learning

I hate dreambox. It has made me hate math. It's not fun and it's boring. Why does my school even have this?

Whenever they ask you to do something and you try to figure it out then they just say "oops try again!" it's so annoying

So I am a person in elementary so if your like ugh nothing will be good from a baby YOUR WRONG its always just underlining the questions and the mini games sucks. If any teacher sees this just let your kids use prodige much easier.

Last school year (19-20) our charter offered DreamBox as an optional subscription, but this year (20-21) it was not offered and wasn't an approved vendor. I ended up purchasing the Lifetime Subscription for my son, because one year was $99, but Lifetime was $150 and I know we will continue using it for at least 2 years. The subscription through our charter was set to the grades 3-5 environment, which my son liked better than the K-2 environment. They all have the same grade level content, but he thought the K-2 seemed "babyish". I was disappointed that when the school subscription expired and I re-enrolled on my own, all his previous work was lost and he was switched back to the K-2 environment. I was able to get the environment switched back within an hour a the request, but he did end up having to repeat some grade 1 lesson that he'd finished in kindergarten because they didn't transfer. Once the system recognized that he had mastered first grade content, it bumped him back up into grade 2 lessons. We use DreamBox as a supplement to our Singapore Dimensions curriculum, and it complements it well. I am able to add assignments, so I can assign standards to match where we currently are in the curriculum. I also love that you can track by National Common Core standard, or state standards- which may cover more content than the national CC standards. They have an app so you can use it on an iPad in addition to their desktop site. The family dashboard is much easier to use on the desktop, but my son prefers the app when he's just playing.

It wastes time on 40 questions just for a lesson when I have to do 10 lessons a week and it's so dumb so many questions are wrong that are right.Some dreamboxs are so stupid it goes on forever.Do not give anybody the chance to do dreambox.

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This app is used in my school, as a student, I am super lucky to use this app! It makes math more fun! I LOVE IT! I recommend this to all Teachers!

This program is JUNK. All it does is start you with pre-pre-pre-pre-pre-pre-pre-k math and it takes FOREVER, and then you HAVE TO SIT THROUGH the monotone voice telling you remember to choose the solution with the least amount of steps, the lessons can be DEVILISHLY confusing and it SUCKS!

This review isn't very detailed because I haven't had to deal with DreamBox for a while so I don't remembered all the horrible little details, but I'd still like to share my thoughts.
I had to do dreambox lessons during elementary and middle school, elementary school was fine but middle school was absolutely torturous. Whoever made the decision of forcing students to do dreambox must be a filthy sadist. Dreambox does not provide lessons, and the feedback for incorrect answers is incredibly unhelpful. The instructions for the activities are so bad, they are seriously SO INCREDIBLY HORRIBLE. Progress on an activity can't be saved and when you pause the website it logs you out after around 10 minutes. God forbid I want to take a break to eat dinner in the middle of completing the most unnecessarily complicated math activity. Each time you get an answer wrong the website says, "oops try again!" and a goofy sound plays, it'd be comical if it wasn't so insulting. Most students already find math boring or stressful, adding hideous animation, confusing games with unclear instructions, and not providing proper help, makes everything so much worse. This website was the death of me in middle school.
I am being so serious, I have never hated anything with such an aggressive passion the way I absolutely LOATHE DreamBox.
PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THINGS HOLY JUST GIVE YOUR STUDENTS NORMAL MATH WORK
I'm not saying all this because I just hate doing math, I really enjoy math and it's become one of my favorite subjects. DreamBox is a website that might work for elementary students using it at school but besides that, DreamBox is not helpful for most students.
In conclusion I think we should bring back the prohibition from the 1920s but with DreamBox instead of alcohol. Xoxo

I have 2 children in elementary school (3rd and 5th grade). Both have issues with math- This program does NOTHING to teach the kids the concepts. It leaves the kids to figure it out on their own, which we know for lower level math students, can be a recipe for disaster. I have complained to the teacher and even personally called and emailed the admin about this program. It is awful, my husband cannot figure it out, my ex cannot either- and I cannot see how this is helpful for young students learning math sklls.

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Dreambox is good, but not perfect though. Dreambox is very entertaining by giving the users a break; Helps focus more on math. It is very helpful in certain ways, I'm in fifth grade doing the 6th & 7th grade curriculum, including algebra, coordinates, radicals, & the distributive property. You can earn prizes & buy games. You can also buy avatars & acquire achievements. However, some topics can be hard to understand & develop the skills. In conclusion, this is my opinion of Dreambox.

The best part of this curriculum is the way the activities are designed. Rather than just click right answers, children are often asked to build answers, perhaps estimating how many sheep will fit in a pen (calculating area) or dragging and dropping markers onto a base-ten grid to match a quantity. Wrong answers are presented with more concrete representations of the answer, in the form of a number line or set of objects, for example. As they work through an exercise, children can see how many problems remain. In one game, each problem causes a dinosaur's neck to stretch. So children naturally want to see what happens when it reaches all the way across the screen. Finally we liked how it is possible to skip over the instructions, or replay them if needed. The choice is yours. Completing games earns coins, which can be used at a carnival arcade, with games like skeet ball where you can add up your points. Weaknesses include a clunky drawing activity, and some gender confusion in the record keeping system, which assumes that every child is a "he." All in all, this is a welcome addition to the world of technology based math curriculum, for parents and schools alike.