Bridges Math-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 complex and novel problems. Bridges blends direct instruction, structured investigation, and open exploration. The program taps into the intelligence strengths of all students by presenting material that is as linguistically, visually, and kinesthetically rich as it is mathematically powerful. 

Bridges Activities 

A Bridges classroom features a combination of whole-group, small-group, and independent activities that are problem centered. Third graders engage in five major kinds of activities:  

• Problems & Investigations
• Work Places
• Math Forums
• Problem Strings
• Assessments

The students are also assessed on their ability to develop and practice the following skills:

1.     Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
2.    Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
3.    Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
4.    Model with mathematics.
5.    Use appropriate tools strategically.
6.    Attend to precision.
7.    Look for and make use of structure.
8.    Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

*There will be a Bridges open house for parents later this fall. I encourage you to be a part of this to explore more about our math program.

Here are some great resources and games that align with the math curriculum being taught in our room. We will be on unit 1 for the next 3 weeks.

Interactive Number Rack

http://www.mathlearningcenter.org/web-apps/number-rack/

Unit 1

Building Expressions

http://v7.k12.com/sample_lessons/activities/images/swfs/building_expressions_final.swf

Click on a number to complete the addition or subtraction expression before time runs out. The program allows you to select from a variety of formats, with unknowns in various positions.

Deep Sea Duel

http://illuminations.nctm.org/Activity.aspx?id=3508

Collect cards that add up to a specified sum. Choose how many cards, types of numbers, and level of strategy.

Flash Interactive

http://www.fuelthebrain.com/Interactives/app.php?ID=29

Choose from 4 visual models to flash on the screen: base ten, five frame, ten frame, multiple ten frame. The timer begins with a view (flash) of 5 seconds. Type in the number represented. With every correct answer, the flash time decreases; with every incorrect answer, flash time increases.

Math Madness

http://www.fuelthebrain.com/Game/play.php?ID=69

Fill in the addend, subtrahend or factor to score points in this basketball arcade game.

Math Lines

http://www.primarygames.com/math/mathlines/

Race to pair numbers that add up to 10. Or select this version of Math Lines and choose your own target number.

Missing Number

http://www.iboard.co.uk/activity/Missing-Number-689

Select a target number (the total) and challenge students to place the missing addend in a number sentence. Timed for one minute. Includes suggestions for playing as a class game.

Number Fact Bingo

http://www.ictgames.com/numberFactsBingo/index.html

Choose from 6 bingo games--highlighting a variety of math strands--to use with an entire class. Print the bingo game cards and use an online machine to select the numbers. Combines desktop and online resources.

Number Line Jump Maker

http://ictgames.com/numberlineJumpMaker/index.html

Select a start point on a number line and then click on other numbers to make jumps of different sizes.

Penguin Addition and Subtraction Facts

http://www.visnos.com/demos/addition-subtraction-facts

Animate penguins to explore addition and subtraction facts to twenty. Penguins jump between icebergs to demonstrate addition and dive under water to show subtraction. Click to view the problem on a number line.

Speedy Pictures

http://www.fisme.science.uu.nl/toepassingen/03373/

Add numbers modeled by one of the following: 10 or 20 bead Rekenrek, dice, fingers, egg cartons, money discs. Adjust the viewing time as needed. Since the pictures are only shown for a short time, students must use addition strategies to add the beads. Uses Java.

Xtra Math

https://xtramath.org/

This free, web-based, math fact fluency program includes addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Student accounts can be accessed from computers at home or school. Progress reports available.

Unit 2

Camel Times Table

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/maths/multiplication/play/

Determine the total number of pieces of fruit on a tray holding plates that each have the same number of pieces of fruit.

Ghost Blasters

http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/Ghostblasters1/gbcd.html

Blast every ghost that displays a multiple of the number you choose. Game may be set for multiples of any number from 2-20.

Math Madness

http://www.fuelthebrain.com/games/math-madness/

Fill in the addend, subtrahend or factor to score points in this basketball arcade game.

Meteor Multiplication

http://www.arcademics.com/games/meteor/meteor.html

As meteors with multiplication problems approach a star station showing a given product, fire them down by clicking on the expression that goes with the product.

Multiplication Grand Prix

http://www.arcademics.com/games/grand-prix/grand-prix.html

Race against the computer or other students by clicking on the correct product in a series of multiplication problems. Also try a similar game, Tractor Multiplication.

Sum Sense Multiplication

http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/SumSense/summulti.html

Drag and drop number cards--with unknowns in all positions--to make a multiplication equation.

Bugs in the System

http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/math-games/bugs-in-the-system/

Click and drag bugs, putting them into the correct color position on a bar graph to count totals.

Cyber Olympics

http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/math-games/cyber-olympics/

Analyze data and click on contestants with the fastest practice times to compete in each event. Cyberchase game.

Unit 3

Glowa's Estamation Contraption

http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/math-games/glowlas-estimation-contraption/

Mentally round and add numbers and type in the answer. Round numbers to the tens place in the first level and progress to larger numbers.

Home Run Derby Math

http://mrnussbaum.com/derby/

Estimate your answer, click "done" and then "hit." Game may be played with addition, subtraction, or multiplication problems and emphasizes skills in rounding numbers. View an instructional video here.

ICT Numberline Games

http://ictgames.com/addition.htm

Site features a variety of number line games.

Math Balloons Rounding

http://www.mathnook.com/math/math-balloons-rounding.html

View a rounding problem (example: 73 Rounds to 80) and click on True or False. Correct answers pop the balloons. Find additional rounding games on Math Nook.

Count on Convict

http://www.ictgames.com/countonconvict.html

Players must type in each jump on the "number line" (a convict's escape tunnel) and then add them all together to find the difference between two double-digit numbers.

Place the Penguin

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/starship/maths/games/place_the_penguin/big_sound/full.shtml

Place penguins on unit & ten charts to represent expanded form of a given number. Level 1 = units & tens. Level 2 = units, tens, hundreds.

Number Pyrimad

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/maths/addition_and_subtraction/play/

Help Molly through the pyramid doors by completing addition and subtraction equations with the correct number or symbol. "Really hard" level uses 3 digit addition and subtraction.

Unit 4

Bang on Time

http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/BangOnTime/clockwordres.html

Time is displayed in words. Player stops clock when hands are in matching position.

Hickory Dickory Clock

http://www.ictgames.com/hickory4.html

Feed the mouse and avoid the cat by correctly reading the analog clock. Includes half past, quarter to, and quarter past.

Bamzooki Fractions Basic

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/maths/number/fractions_basic/play/

Click on the number button to divide the floor arena into the number of segments that match the denominator.  Then click on floor segments to color in divisions to represent the numerator.

Battleship Numberline: Fractions

https://www.brainpop.com/games/battleshipnumberline/

Click on a 0-1 number line to identify where a given fraction is located.

Shading Blocks

http://www.iboard.co.uk/activity/Fraction-of-Shapes-Shading-Blocks-332

Color blocks to represent a given fraction. Five levels from which to select. At the lowest level players shade in 1/2 of 4,6,8, or 10; at the highest level, shade in 1/3 or 2/3 of 6, 9, or 12. TESiboard activity.

Slide to the Top

http://www.abcya.com/number_line_fractions_percents_decimals.htm

Arrange numbers from least to greatest on a number line. Work quickly and accurately to better your score. Choose from fractions, fractions & decimals, and fractions/decimals/percents.

The Ruler Game

http://www.globalclassroom.org/rulergame200/index.html

Click on a ruler to identify the location of a given number. Choose from the following levels: wholes, halves, quarters, eighths, sixteenths.

Unit 5

Drag Race Division

http://www.arcademics.com/games/drag-race/drag-race.html

Race against the computer or other students by clicking on the correct quotient in a series of division problems. Also try a similar game, Demolition Division.

Repeated Steps

http://www.iboard.co.uk/activity/Repeated-Sets-Game-Version-118

Count the number of bags and the total fruit in each bag to calculate the total. See how many sets you can count in 60 seconds. TESiboard activity. A Teaching Toolversion of this activity is also available.

Math Madness

http://www.fuelthebrain.com/games/math-madness/

Fill in the addend, subtrahend or factor to score points in this basketball arcade game.

Meteor Multiplication

http://www.arcademics.com/games/meteor/meteor.html

As meteors with multiplication problems approach a star station showing a given product, fire them down by clicking on the expression that goes with the product.

Sum Sense Multiplication

http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/SumSense/summulti.html

Drag and drop number cards--with unknowns in all positions--to make a multiplication equation.

Multiplication Grand Prix

http://www.arcademics.com/games/grand-prix/grand-prix.html

Race against the computer or other students by clicking on the correct product in a series of multiplication problems. Also try a similar game, Tractor Multiplication.

Area Shapes Shoot

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/geometry/shapeshoot/AreaShapesShoot.htm

Click on the figures that have a given area.

Measure It!

http://www.funbrain.com/measure/index.html

View a segment next to a ruler and correctly identify its length. Levels include: easy inches (to the nearest half inch), medium inches (to the nearest fourth of an inch), hard inches (to the nearest eighth), and super brain inches (to the nearest sixteenth.)

Zoo Designer

 http://mrnussbaum.com/zoo/

Click and drag a shape tool to create enclosures that are the correct area and/or perimeter for animals at the zoo.

Unit 6

Concentration

http://illuminations.nctm.org/Activity.aspx?id=3563

Click on the desired mode to play a game in which you match each shape, array, percent, or fraction visual with its name. The game will play an audio recording of the name.

Airlines Builder

http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/math-games/airlines-builder/

In this Cyberchase game, players must construct 3 different ships with the same perimeter by clicking and dragging edge pieces. After the ship is built, the "seats" are filled to show area. After finding all shapes with a perimeter of 8, find shapes with perimeter of 10.

Quadrilateral Shape Shoot

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/geometry/shapeshoot/QuadShapesShoot.htm

Click on a specified type of quadrilateral in this arcade game.

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Half

http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/math-games/thirteen-ways-looking-half/

Find 13 different ways to show one-half by highlighting 4 out of 8 congruent triangles that are arranged in a square.

Unit 7

Meteor Multiplication

http://www.arcademics.com/games/meteor/meteor.html

As meteors with multiplication problems approach a star station showing a given product, fire them down by clicking on the expression that goes with the product.

Multiplication Grand Prix

http://www.arcademics.com/games/grand-prix/grand-prix.html

Race against the computer or other students by clicking on the correct product in a series of multiplication problems. Also try a similar game, Tractor Multiplication.

Bamzooki Multiplication & Division

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/maths/number/multiplication_division/play/

Click on the correct number to answer a variety of problems including: single digit multiplication, 2 digit x 1 digit multiplication, and 3 digit/1 digit division with remainders.

Concentration

http://illuminations.nctm.org/Activity.aspx?id=3563

Click on the desired mode to play a game in which you match each shape, array, percent, or fraction visual with its name. The game will play an audio recording of the name.

Melvin's Make a Match

http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/math-games/melvins-make-match/

Click on bottles to match equivalent fractions in this Cyberchase game.

Ordering Fractions Game

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/maths/games?page=2

Click and drag fractions to put in vertical order. The first level uses unit fractions; subsequent levels contain fractions with unlike denominators.

Mathman Fractions

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/fractions/mathman_fractions_numberline.htm

View a dot on a number line, determine the fraction, then eat the ghost with that fraction to earn points.

Slide to the Top

http://www.abcya.com/number_line_fractions_percents_decimals.htm

Arrange numbers from least to greatest on a number line. Work quickly and accurately to better your score. Choose from fractions, fractions & decimals, and fractions/decimals/percents.