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The Math Learning Center Blog

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The new and improved Free Products page in our online catalog features a fresh look, new category descriptions, and additional products. The newly created Lessons & Activities categories contain over 150 individual Bridges supplement sets as well as grade level correlations to the Common Core State Standards. These teacher materials and worksheets that can be used with any curriculum. In addition...
Rick Ludeman, Chief Executive Officer
MLC’s online catalog now features complete sections for Bridges and Number Corner Second Edition including pages for all grade-level products K-5. “We are gratified by educators’ enthusiasm for the Second Edition”, said Rick Ludeman, MLC president. He added,“The new product pages allow us to share more details about the extensive set of classroom materials that come with each classroom package.” A...
Jami Smith
The Number Rack facilitates the natural development of children’s number sense. Rows of moveable, colored beads encourage learners to think in groups of fives and tens, helping them to explore and discover a variety of addition and subtraction strategies. The Number Rack is featured extensively throughout Bridges in Mathematics in grades K–3. We’ve compiled a collection of resources to support the...
Jami Smith
Recently I read an ASCD article about fostering creativity that described a technique called visual thinking strategies or VTS. Initially created to explore aesthetic development in children, VTS is a teaching method centered on open-ended yet highly-structured discussions of visual art. It engages students in an enriching experience that not only builds creativity but also develops critical...
Rick Ludeman, Chief Executive Officer
Number Pieces helps students develop a deeper understanding of place value while building their computational skills with multi-digit numbers. Young learners can represent multi-digit numbers, regroup, add, subtract, multiply, and divide. Number Pieces also gives them a drawing tool to label representations and show their understanding. Number Pieces is the third app in the growing MLC collection...
Rick Ludeman, Chief Executive Officer
Bridges in Mathematics second edition, is a comprehensive K–5 mathematics curriculum that equips teachers to fully implement the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics in a manner that is rigorous, coherent, engaging, and accessible to all learners. The curriculum focuses on developing students’ deep understandings of mathematical concepts, proficiency with key skills, and ability to solve...
Information Age Education is a nonprofit project of Dr. Dave Moursund, a lifelong contributor to technology in education and founding MLC board member. The organization’s goal to improve education is reflected in a number of initiatives including: Offering free books for download Publishing a newsletter twice a month Authoring and hosting a blog Creating a Wiki, IAE-pedia Many of the featured...
Rick Ludeman, Chief Executive Officer
On November 2nd combined downloads of the Geoboard and Number Rack apps from MLC exceeded 50,000, many from around the globe. In addition, thousands of users have accessed the web versions of these virtual manipulatives. "We're gratified that these online learning tools have been so well received." said Dan Raguse, Executive Director. "We look forward to adding to the collection and plan to launch...
Rick Ludeman, Chief Executive Officer
The Number Rack , or Rekenrek, was designed to support the natural mathematical development of children and specifically to help them generate a variety of addition and subtraction strategies. Our free activity book, Using the Rekenrek as a Visual Model for Strategic Reasoning in Mathematics , now includes correlations to the Common Core State Standards for all 10 activities. View more Number Rack...
Rick Ludeman, Chief Executive Officer
The Math Learning Center announces the second edition of Bridges in Mathematics K-5 . Written specifically for the Common Core State Standards, the new edition includes several new visual models such as the Number Line and the Number Rack (also known as the Rekenrek). Other features include the Bridges Educator site, an online portal for reference and support. Number Corner has been updated in...
Rick Ludeman, Chief Executive Officer