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Dreambox is a great way to engage your students, in math they need! You don't have to do anything but monitor. As we are doing math, with our students at home, it is important we remember, they need to make sense out of the math themselves. Watch the YouTube video above, for a fantastic analogy of the dangers of telling students too soon, which applies in any teaching situation, at home or at school.
Example of what a Dreambox lesson looks like in 5th Grade. *Screenshot taken directly from Dreambox.
Check out some fun math games (either use this link or play below) that you can play online, with your child! Make sure you click the correct grade level tab on the left, to access the games that apply to your child. Why should my student play math games? Read these two short articles. Article 1 Article 2
When you're playing games or simply talking about math in your everyday life, encourage your child to use strategies to figure out their "math facts", vs. having them memorize them. Example: 9 x 7 - If a student thinks of this in terms of having 9 groups of 7, they can use what they know to figure out what they don't know. If I know 5 x 7 (5 groups of 7) = 35, then I just need 4 more groups of 7 to make 9x7 and 4x7=28, so 9x7= 63, because (5x7)+(4x7)=63
Another way: 9 x 5 = 45 (9 groups of 5) and I know I still need 9 groups of 2 to make 9x7. 9x2=18, so 9x7=63 because (9x5)+(9x2)=63. You could show this visually on graph paper, if needed.
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