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The Math Learning Center Blog

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Recently my school adopted the Responsive Classroom approach, which has been part of my teaching since 2001. What does it mean to be a Responsive Classroom school, and how does RC help me with Bridges math instruction? 1. The social and emotional curriculum is as important as the academic curriculum. Responsive Classroom brings together academic and social-emotional learning through specific...
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...
Math standards have changed, and so too must math teaching practices. Pia Hansen’s message at the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics conference in Indiana is featured in Chalkbeat Indiana , a news site covering educational change. Pia, The Math Learning Center’s director of professional development, drew a crowd of teachers who came to learn how visual strategies can help students reach a...
The Number Pieces app is an excellent tool for teaching and learning place value. Here are a few activities that you can use with kids in grades 1–2. These activities explore base ten concepts and models within 1,000 that will help lay the foundation for learning double-digit computation. Activity 1: Ask the child to show a certain number using the base ten pieces. For example, 3 tens, 7 ones, and...
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Do you know there’s an easy way to support your favorite charitable organization whenever you shop at amazon.com? When you sign up for AmazonSmile , 0.5% of your purchases will be donated to the charity of your choice. Need a charitable organization to support? You’re in luck! The Math Learning Center is now available as a choice for AmazonSmile. It’s simple to sign up. Just go to smile.amazon.com...
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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...
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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.
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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
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Watch this short video to learn more about free downloadable lesson plans and student activities available from The Math Learning Center. Or, click here and start downloading now!
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Problem Solving with Story Boxes is now available at no charge on our free products page . These materials are intended for use with students in kindergarten through second grade. Problem Solving with Story Boxes progresses from teacher-posed problems to students creating their own picture problems while constructing and sharing strategies for adding, subtracting, grouping, and partitioning...
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