The Math Learning Center Blog

Today's debates about the future of education are complex and often contentious. What if the most important concept to embrace was both strikingly simple and profound? What if the genesis of educational success was as straightforward as mindset? In a fixed mindset, people believe their basic qualities, like their intelligence or talent, are simply fixed traits. They spend their time documenting...

The Pattern Shapes App is now available for download from The Math Learning Center. Here's a quick tutorial on how to use this new free math app. Jami is a media specialist for MLC.

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Art is an essential element of our human experience, offering aesthetic pleasure as well as a method for expressing and contemplating meaning. But what if art could also be used as a vehicle for building critical thinking and communications skills? That is the premise and promise behind Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS), an educational program developed more than 20 years ago by Philip Yenawine and...

The Number Frames App is now available for download! Here's a quick overview of how the app works. Click here to download Number Frames. Jami Smith is a media specialist for MLC.

Introducing Math Vocabulary Cards — a new app inspired by the Word Resource Cards that are included in Bridges Second Edition. Here's a quick overview of how the app works. Click here to download Math Vocabulary Cards now! Jami Smith is a media specialist for MLC.

Number Corner is a skill-building program that revolves around the classroom calendar. The program features short daily workouts that introduce, reinforce, and extend skills and concepts related to the critical areas of study at each grade level. Click image to view larger. For grade level specific content outlines, including scope and sequence and correlations to the CCSS and TEKS, please visit...

Watch a short video on how to download and use the Number Line App. Jami Smith is a media specialist for MLC.

MLC offices will be closed December 23rd - January 6th. Should an urgent need arise feel free to contact us. We will monitor voicemail and email periodically. Happy Holidays from The Math Learning Center! Jami Smith is a media specialist for MLC. Follow the MLC blog with Bloglovin

As teachers, we are continually challenged to find multiple ways to reach all students when teaching mathematics. Guided math can help you develop practical techniques, instructional strategies and routines that allow you to work with your students in small groups at their level of understanding and need. December Dates Dec 2 Cleveland, OH Dec 3 Columbus, OH Dec 4 Cincinnati, OH Dec 5 Louisville...