What’s the difference between the academic activities in the Adventure Park and the Carnival?
Children spend most of their time on DreamBox playing lessons in the Adventure Park. These lessons cover the DreamBox math curriculum for each grade level. When students begin playing DreamBox and as they progress, some Adventure Park lessons assess a child’s existing knowledge and place him/her at the appropriate place in our curriculum. So on the Parent Dashboard, the progress report will show which math topics the student has “skipped in placement” (i.e. already knew and therefore successfully passed in our placement lessons). Students can also play in the Carnival, where there are 2 types of activities — carnival games and arcade games. In the Carnival, the Castle Maze, Petting Zoo, Frog Race, and Dunk Tank games have an academic focus, but they’re a little different from the Adventure Park lessons in that they don’t focus on a specific mathematical concept. Instead they help students develop problem-solving skills in a mathematical environment. Each game has several levels that bu
