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The Math Learning Center Blog

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The Math Learning Center is excited to offer a selection of Math at Home activities on the Seesaw platform! Seesaw, with its ability to capture student thinking via voice and drawing, is a wonderful tool for Math at Home activities. Math at Home provides families, educators, and students with rich activities to engage in deep mathematical thinking, no matter where their learning happens. The...
Given the past year’s unique circumstances, we know many teachers are thinking about how Bridges will look and sound once when they return to in-person learning. The Math Learning Center is pleased to introduce Getting (Re)Started; a series of three webinars, designed to support teachers as they transition from remote to in-person learning. Our curriculum consultants LaKeshia Cooper and Jennifer...
Raise your hand if you’ve heard a parent or guardian ask how they can help with home learning. Providing guidance to families can play a critical role in establishing a growth mindset in children. We know that a large body of research has confirmed the impact of parents’ beliefs about math on their children’s achievement. (See this article from You Cubed to learn more.) As Bridges educators, we...
In a 1-hour webinar this week, our curriculum consultants led a guided exploration of the Bridges Intervention Resources created for the 2020–2021 school year. Participants experienced a Volume 2 intervention session that uses apps, Google Docs, and Work Places. Here’s the full replay: Questions during the webinar and feedback following it made one thing clear: Bridges Intervention users are eager...
To support educators delivering instruction in synchronous, asynchronous, and blended learning environments, last summer The Math Learning Center began releasing Tech-Enhanced Activities (TEAs) . These are activities designed for, and adapted from, Bridges in Mathematics and created with the Google suite of apps. Now, we’re excited to announce the release of TEAs for Seesaw for grades K–2! The...
In this series of blog posts, we highlight educators in the field who are using remote learning resources intentionally to build classroom community, collaboration, and student sense-making. With the shift in 2020–21 to hybrid and remote environments, collecting authentic formative and summative assessment data presents a challenge. NCTM describes the role assessments play for student learning in...
Embedded below are the replays for the Unit 4 grade-level webinars, which explore the mathematics in Unit 4, highlighting multiple strategies for implementing Bridges in synchronous and asynchronous environments. As with the Unit 3 (Part A) replays and Unit 3 (Part B) replays , we’re including the replays for each grade level below on a single page to facilitate sharing with your peers. Since we...
In this series of blog posts, we highlight educators in the field who are using remote learning resources intentionally to build classroom community, collaboration, and student sense-making. In a recent post , Ed Tech Specialist Tod Johnston discusses how educators can leverage digital tools to position students as active partners in their learning. Digital tools are a necessity during this time...
This week, registration opened for MLC’s January grade-level support webinars. As with past webinars in this series, our curriculum consultants and teachers in residence will explore resources and offer guidance for how they may be used to support students in synchronous and asynchronous settings. January’s webinars will focus on unpacking the mathematics in the upcoming unit, examining...
Embedded below are the replays for the Unit 3 (Part B) grade-level webinars, which continued exploring the unit content, corresponding Tech-Enhanced Activities, Math at Home resources and Digital Work Places. As with the Unit 2 webinar and Unit 3 (Part A) replays , we’re including the replays for each grade level below on a single page to facilitate sharing with your peers. Since we cover...