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The Math Learning Center Blog

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Here are some of the districts that have adopted Bridges Second Edition this month: Crossroads Charter Academy, Big Rapids, MI Addison Central Supervisory Union, Middlebury, VT Avon Grove School District, West Grove, PA Washington County Public Schools, Hagerstown, MD* Inchelium School District, Inchelium, WA Dufur School District, Dufur, OR Orange Southwest Supervisory Union, Braintree, VT...
Jami Smith
Asking students questions and inviting them to ask questions of their own can help you discover and address their individual strengths and needs. You can tier questions and problems according to level of challenge, generally progressing from well-rooted, shared understandings toward higher-level work. This allows all students to contribute to the discussion as learning is constructed. Follow-up...
Carrie Baker
Increased Rigor With the tighter focus of the CCSSM comes greater depth and increased rigor. You’ll need to offer students many opportunities to develop conceptual understanding, practice key skills, and apply their skills and understandings to novel situations and problems. To support students in this rigorous approach to mathematics, you’ll need to be comfortable with the mathematics too. We...
Martha Ruttle
Creating an environment that supports risk taking In a collaborative classroom, students share their work, think aloud, ask questions, and work together. For this sharing and collaboration to be effective, they must feel comfortable taking risks and making mistakes. You can help students understand that mistakes are a very valuable part of the learning process and that working through mistakes and...
Hannah Chandler
Here are some of the districts that have adopted Bridges Second Edition this month: Chittenden South Supervisory Union , Shelburne, VT Cartersville City School System , Cartersville, GA Near West Intergenerational School , Cleveland, OH Gervais School District , Gervais, OR Madison Public Schools , Madison, CT Milton School District , Milton, WI Bannockburn School District , Bannockburn, IL White...
Jami Smith
Just as your students have different learning styles, intelligence strengths, preferred tools, and ways to express themselves, they also have preferences about social interaction. All of these preferences can powerfully affect learning. Many students enjoy games and collaborative investigations. Some relish whole-group debates and thrive on the lively exchange that emerges in classroom discussions...
Greater Coherence The CCSSM emphasize coherence within and across grade levels. This means that students’ experiences with a mathematical topic should be clearly tied to what they have already learned in earlier grade levels and what they will learn in the future. It also means that instruction should be carefully sequenced and that teachers should help students make connections between topics. We...
Martha Ruttle
Getting to know your students well The first step in building a strong classroom community is getting to know your students as individuals. When children feel known, understood, and cared about, they are better able to develop relationships with you and with their peers. Strong relationships and a sense of belonging reduce the potential for challenging behavior and contribute to a positive...
Hannah Chandler
Here are some of the districts that have adopted Bridges Second Edition this month: Unalaska City School District , Unalaska, AK Bedford Public Schools , Bedford, MA DeSoto Parish School System , Mansfield, LA Fowlerville Community Schools , Fowlerville, MI White Pass School District , Randle, WA Wai’alae Elementary Public Charter School, Honolulu, HI Jami Smith is a graphic designer and social...
Jami Smith
The Common Core State Standards for Mathematics prompt teachers to significantly change both what they teach and how they teach it. In a series of posts, we’ll address the three characteristics of the new content standards likely to have the biggest impact on the way you teach math—tighter focus, greater coherence, and increased rigor. Finally, we’ll cover the other area of significant change, and...