Learning Content & Pedagogy

Select Bridges sessions or Number Corner days based on your course content and learning goals. The following resources can support your planning:

• Models in Bridges provides a big picture look at the visual models that are leveraged for each conceptual area. 

• The Progressions allow for the review of mathematical concepts and representations across the grades and include information about where to find the content. 

These resources directly illustrate for prospective and preservice teachers the mathematical progression of concepts, representations, and strategies across the grades.

Examine the design of a Bridges unit or Number Corner month for ways learning opportunities prompt deep mathematical understanding and student engagement. Consider using a:

• Grade level overview

• Unit introduction or preview video

• Number Corner month introduction or preview video 

These can support a more complete vision of the big picture and support decision-making within a given session or day.

Engage in doing the math of a routine or problem situation to model the practices of eliciting thinking through task selection and purposeful questioning as well as using the thinking to orchestrate whole group discussions that compare and connect strategies or representations.