Bridges e-News
DECEMBER 2013


  

Recently, The Math Learning Center released its fourth free app, Number Line. With Number Line, students explore strategies based on place value and properties of operations, and compute distances or differences between two numbers with addition and subtraction. Read more ...
  

A recent Edutopia article, 11 Virtual Tools for the Math Classroom, highlights several apps you might want to try with your students. Article author Monica Burns describes specific ways that she's used various math apps with her 5th grade students. Read more...
  

Inspired by Jeffrey Frykhom's book, Learning to Think Mathematically With the Number Line, I created a life-sized number line in my classroom. My 5th graders have been studying fractions using both clock and money models. 
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Online resources provide many opportunities for students to explore measurement with nonstandard units. Read more...
  

NRICH from the University of Cambridge publishes an online holiday calendar containing a daily math challenge for December 1-24. This year's selection includes many problem solving questions that could be used by a single child up to a large group.  Read more ... 
  
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Happy Holidays!

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