Building Mathematical Thinkers
Inquiry-based and student-centered, Bridges focuses on developing mathematical reasoning while creating an inclusive and equitable learning community for all students.
Rich Learning Experiences
In a Bridges classroom, students gather evidence, explain their results, and develop respect for others’ opinions. Teachers encourage students to employ multiple strategies when solving problems. They foster student initiative by providing opportunities to work in pairs, discuss in small groups, or share with the whole class. As a result, students develop positive math identities while building problem-solving skills, conceptual understanding, and procedural fluency.
Inclusive Learning Environments
Bridges Third Edition brings focus to representation, provides guidance for creating an inclusive learning environment, and includes revised tasks that support equity.
Visual Models Deepen Understanding
Bridges utilizes visual models that build on one another across grade levels. These materials and manipulatives let students represent and interpret numbers, shapes, and patterns—and make sense of mathematics.
Active Learning
Bridges fosters collaboration by incorporating familiar mathematical and instructional routines, ensuring that each student feels heard. Students have opportunities to think independently and work in pairs or small groups before sharing strategies with the whole class. The integration of The Math Learning Center’s apps further encourages active investigation.
Key Elements of Bridges Third Edition
Bridges Units
Number Corner Months
Complementary Elements of Bridges Third Edition
Bridges Intervention
Concept Quests
Implementation Support
Professional Learning
Learning to implement any new curriculum is complex work. New adoption sites receive a comprehensive Getting Started Experience designed to provide meaningfully distributed learning for teachers across the first year of implementation.
Support for Instructional Leaders
We offer the Math Learning Center Leadership Cohort M(LC)² to support instructional leaders during the first year of implementation. Principals, coaches and curriculum specialists meet monthly to share and develop practices to support teachers to equitably implement Bridges.
The Bridges Educator Site
In addition to digital versions of the Teachers Guides and student-facing print materials, the Bridges Educator Site (BES) includes webinars, online courses, a library of videos showing implementation support and the curriculum in action, and resource collections focused on equitable and effective teaching practices with Bridges.
Digital Assessment
Bridges schools and districts have the option to contract with one of our three collaborators to manage their digital assessments. The Math Learning Center receives no financial benefit from these arrangements.
Preview Bridges Third Edition
Transition to Third Edition
Third Edition Samples
Literature Base for Bridges Third Edition
Standards Correlations
Customer Support
Our customer experience team is dedicated to ensuring you get timely answers to questions that might arise during evaluation or implementation. In addition to their own knowledge, they have access to our subject-matter experts and cadre of experienced Bridges educators.