For the last several years, MLC blog posts have highlighted resources that help to keep students' math skills sharp during summer vacation. This year, send your students home with some ideas to increase their math APP-titudes. Read more ...

Laurie Kilts, a Math Recovery specialist and tutor from Casper, Wyoming, shares photos from first grade Bridges students at Evansville Elementary. She writes, "They are studying penguins and each class created habitats out in the hallway. They look awesome!" Read more... 

After pre- and post- unit assessments, I normally ask students to reflect on their learning. This year, however, I felt like something was missing. My class--a group who'd never used Bridges--was consistently demonstrating phenomenal growth from pre- to post-test. But during the unit, they'd forget how much they didn't know when they started.  Read more ...

In Teaching English Language Learners with Bridges we featured the work of Justin Johnson and his colleagues at Portland Public Schools. He continues to encourage language development during student-centered activities. Read more...

Children's literature is a regular part of our math class. For my students, the math-literature connection provides an endless source of humor and intrigue as well as opportunities to problem solve and make connections to mathematical concepts. Recently, my class has been exploring multi-digit multiplication using arrays to model partial products in preparation for building procedural fluency with the traditional algorithm. Read more ...