Build Fluency
The activities in the Bridges Breakout: Number Rack engage students with a math tool designed to empower them with a deep conceptual understanding of number and relationships fact fluency. Ultimately, the number rack also helps students' understanding of addition and subtraction fact fluency with meaning.
Designed for small groups
Help your grade K–2 students:
- Develop a rich sense of numbers and parts of numbers
- Build intuitive, flexible and accurate computation strategies
- Make connections among related facts
Kit includes:
- Bridges Breakout: Number Rack book with 22 individual lessons
- 10 student number racks
- 22 task cards
- Ten-frame and double-ten-frame dot cards
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"The number rack model helps build the bridge from counting to computational fluency by inviting students to think about numbers in groups of 2, 5 and 10."
–Shelly Scheafer, classroom teacher and
Bridges Breakout: Number Rack contributor
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Visit the teacher support page for sentence frames to support student discourse, additional games, and the MLC Number Rack app. You’ll also find background materials on fact fluency development, insights into problem-solving situations, and an asset-focused assessment tool.