DreamBox Math by Discovery Education was recently enhanced to improve accessibility for all K-5 students. DreamBox Math is a K-8 online math program that supplements core instruction in the classroom or at home, and is independently proven by several third-party research organizations to increase math achievement.
DreamBox Math adapts dynamically to the learner, providing personalized instruction within a highly engaging, gamified learning environment. DreamBox Math lessons are available in both English and Spanish and align to math standards in all states. Along with actionable reporting and tools that empower differentiation for all learners, DreamBox Math offers teachers content-specific professional learning and provides administrators critical insights into student progress.
To surpass compliance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines standards, the DreamBox Math team worked with teachers, special education experts, and students with disabilities to develop critical product enhancements that enable all K-5 students to engage with the highly effective program, including:
- Improved compatibility with assistive technology tools, such as magnification and screen readers.
- An enhanced screen reader with alternative descriptions that support concept understanding and streamlines problem-solving for students with limited and/or low vision.
- Easy-to-tap, move, and place elements ease interaction and accommodate a variety of devices, physical needs, and learning styles.
- Intuitive keyboard navigation lets students know where they are on the lesson page and within the manipulative.
- Clear visuals enable students with low vision and color blindness to distinguish selectable foreground elements from the background.
- All lessons now feature replay instructions, so students can easily refer to the task.
In addition to these accessibility updates, DreamBox Math’s popular Racecourse lessons — in which students learn to represent equivalent fractions as part of a whole — have been updated. Guided by student and teacher feedback, these improvements make it easier for students to get started and interact with the resource through lesson progression. Among the improvements to the Racecourse lessons are:
- New, more relatable “Road Trip” context for students that makes tasks clearer.
- Numbered intervals along the course that streamlines the problem-solving process.
- Larger visuals and more space to make it easier for all users to place markers along the course.
- Updated scaffolding to ensure students have support and meaningful feedback as they progress through the lesson.
Further updates to DreamBox Math K-8 and DreamBox Reading solutions are scheduled for release throughout 2025.
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