DimensionM Math Curriculum Alignments
Finding Connections – DimensionM Games and Your Classroom
To make the most of DimensionM games as a tool in your classroom, it’s crucial that you can easily find
connections between the skills your students will encounter in the games and the skills that you are working on in
your classroom. Our online curriculum alignment tool will help you to do just that.
Once you’ve logged in on the Educator Portal (https://edportal.DimensionU.com), you’ll find a link to the Curriculum
Alignments on the right side of the Home Page. Just click the link and a new browser window will open to
automatically direct you to the right place. Or, you can go direct to the Curriculum Alignments page at
http://www.dimensionu.com/curriculumalignments. Once there you’ll see a page with these options for getting
started:
You can choose one of three ways to start your search: Search by State, Search by Textbook, or Search by
DimensionM Math Skill. From there, use a combination of the drop-down menus and keyword search fields to get
the results you’re looking for. On the following pages are some tips to get you started.
Search by State
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Search by Textbook
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Search by DimensionM Math Skill
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Understanding Search Results
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Search by State
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Use this option when you want to know the answer to the question: “Which skills in the DimensionM games are
aligned to my state standards?”
Simply select your state from the drop-down
menu and click ‘Go!’ to get started. We have
alignments for all 50 states. On the next page,
you’ll be able to select from multiple sets of
standards for your state, where applicable—we
have alignments to more than 110 sets of state
standards in all. These standards, and our
alignments to them, are updated annually to
stay in sync with ongoing revisions.
Limiting the Number of Results
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After making your selection, your state will be listed at the top of the page. For this sample, we selected Texas.
You can refine your search to get only the results you’re looking for.
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 The first drop-down menu allows you to decide the breadth of your alignment, either a broad search against all
state standards or limited to a particular set if your state has more than one set of standards.
EXAMPLE: The drop-down menu will list the following sets of standards for Texas:
 - All TX State Standards - Selecting this shows the superset of all DimensionM skills aligned to all
available sets of standards
 Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) Selecting this limits the results to DimensionM skills
aligned to the broader set of TEKS skills mandated by the state curriculum
 Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) Selecting this limits the results to DimensionM skills
aligned to the narrower set of TAKS skills mandated by the state assessment
 After choosing a set of standards, the second drop-down menu allows you to select a grade level or band for the
selected set of standards. The elements on the list match the coverage in each particular set of standards. For
instance, in Illinois the Learning Standards are broken into five grade bands, while the Performance Descriptors are
broken into ten stages.
NOTE: You can select a numeric grade level from the second drop down without selecting a particular set of
standards. In this case, results will be returned for all sets of available state standards and include the best
matches for the chosen grade level with each set of standards.
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 Use this field to narrow your search to include only standards which contain a particular keyword or phrase.
TIPS FOR USING OUR KEYWORD SEARCH
The search will return only standards with an exact match for the word or phrase that you
enter. For example, entering “multiply” will return standards including the words multiply
and multiplying but not the word multiplication. Similarly, phrases will only return exact
matches.
EXAMPLE: Let’s say that you want to find out which DimensionM skills are aligned to New
York Core Curriculum standard 6.N.17: “Multiply and divide fractions with unlike
denominators.” If you selected NY Core Curriculum from the Select State Standards
drop-down menu, and typed multiply fractions in the search box, you would get no results
since those two words do not appear together, in that order, in the skill description. On the
other hand, a search for the keyword fractions would return the result you were looking
for, along with any other skills containing the word.
TIP: To ensure that you find what you’re looking for, it’s best to consult the language in
your state standards or textbook and use a descriptive two- or three-word phrase taken
directly from the text.
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 Use these drop-down menus to select a DimensionM Game (DimensionM Multiplayer, Evolver Single Player, or
Dimenxian Single Player). After you select a particular game, sub-menus will appear and populate with the options
allowing you to see skills specific to that game. This list shows the parameters available for each game:
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DimensionM Multiplayer v3 / Level (Grade) / Topic / Skill
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Evolver Single Player / Mission / Skill
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Dimenxian Single Player / Mission / Skill
HINT: You’ll find a sample screenshot on page 6.
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Search by Textbook
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Use this option when you want to know the answer to the question: “Which skills in the DimensionM games are
aligned to the lessons in my textbook?”
Click ‘Go!’ to get started. We currently have
alignments to popular textbook titles from
McGraw-Hill, Pearson/Prentice Hall, Holt, and
McDougal Littell, with more publishers and
titles on the way.
Limiting the Number of Results
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After landing on the next page, you can see which textbooks we currently have alignments to and refine your
search to get only the results you’re looking for.
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 The first step is to use the drop-down menu to select the publisher. From there, you can choose a Series/Title
and a Unit/Chapter. Each sub-menu will populate with the appropriate information based on your previous
selection
Here’s an example using McGraw-Hill’s Everyday Mathematics:
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 Use this field to narrow your results to only include lessons matching a specific keyword. The search will return
only results with an exact match for the word or phrase that you enter. For example, entering “multiply” will return
standards including the words multiply and multiplying but not the word multiplication. Similarly with phrases,
only exact matches will be returned.
HINT: For tips on using our keyword search, see page 3.
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 Use these drop-down menus to select a Game. After you select a particular game, sub-menus will appear and
populate with the options allowing you to see skills specific to that game. This list shows the parameters available
for each game:
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DimensionM Multiplayer v3 / Level (Grade) / Topic / Skill
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Evolver Single Player / Mission / Skill

Dimenxian Single Player / Mission / Skill
HINT: You’ll find a sample screenshot on page 6.
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Search by DimensionM Math Skill
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Use this option when you want to know the answer to the question: “When my students have played a mission
involving a particular DimensionM math skill, how does this connect to the skills in my classroom or textbook?”
Click ‘Go!’ to get started. On the next page,
you’ll be able to select the specific
DimensionM Game you’re interested in, and
then choose from the math skills available in
that particular game.
Limiting the Number of Results
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After landing on the next page, you can select a specific game and refine your search to get only the results
you’re looking for.
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 Use these drop-down menus to select a Game. After you select a particular game, sub-menus will appear and
populate with the options allowing you to see skills specific to that game. This list shows the parameters available
for each game:

DimensionM Multiplayer v3 / Level (Grade) / Topic / Skill

Evolver Single Player / Mission / Skill

Dimenxian Single Player / Mission / Skill
Here’s an example for DimensionM Multiplayer:
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 After you’ve selected the game details you want, you can narrow your results to only return matches for the
specific state standards or textbook chapter you’re interested in. You can even narrow results further by selecting
a particular keyword match for your search. Below is an example of a very narrow search that will limit your results
to one particular skill.
Here’s a Sample Search:
And the Results of this Search:
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Understanding Search Results
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The sample screenshot below is a sample of the results you might get from a search. The numbered boxes
highlighted below are explained on the following page.
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 Elements Displayed in Search Results
1. ‘Start New Search’ Link
 This will return you to the Curriculum Alignments Home Page to start your search from scratch.
2. ‘Revise Search’ Link
 This will return you to the last search page you were on, with all your search selections intact.
3. ‘Print Version’ Link
 This will open a new browser window to display your search results in a clean, print-ready format
which you can print directly from within your browser. You can also save the print-ready results as a
single, self-contained HTML file so you can print or review them at a later time.
4. List of Search Parameters
 This recaps all the selections you made for this particular search.
5. Number of Results Returned
 This displays the number of State Standards or Textbook Units/Chapters included in the search,
though there may be more than one DimensionM Skill listed for each result.
 If there are more than 20 results, a link will appear to allow you to scroll forward and backward through
the available results, with 20 results displayed per page.
6. Expand/Collapse Text Button
 Click on the plus (+) symbol to expand the text and see the all descriptive levels in the language of a
particular State Standard or Textbook Unit/Chapter.
 Click on the minus (–) symbol to collapse back to the abridged version, which makes it easier to view
multiple results.
7. Reference Text – From State Standards or Textbook Unit/Chapter
 The text displayed here is taken directly from the source documents in question, whether State
Standards or a Textbook.
 If your search includes more than one particular set of State Standards, the results will be grouped by
each set of standards. The same is true for a search which includes more than one specific Textbook.
8. List of Aligned DimensionM Math Skills
 The text displayed here matches the information as it is displayed in each Game.
 The DimensionM Math Skills are ordered so that the most relevant skills are shown at the top of the list.
Each DimensionM Math Skill was assigned a weighted relevance ranking during the alignment
process.
 If your search includes more than one DimensionM Game (e.g., DimensionM Multiplayer and Evolver
Single Player), the results will be sorted by the relevance of the skill alignment rather than by Game.
 If there are more than five DimensionM Math Skills aligned to a given Skill or Unit/Lesson, you can click
on the plus (+) symbol next to “Display [X] more resources” to show them all.
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