Hello!
Several of you have asked me about Number Corner. Number Corner is a separate component of the Bridges Math program. It is to be done daily outside of the longer daily math period.
There are five components to Number Corner:
Days in School - Activities and routines that capitalize on the number of days students have been in school.
Calendar Collector - Collections that promote deep understandings of estimation and counting, place value, measurement, and data.
Calendar Grid - Patterns that introduce and reinforce a variety of key number and geometry skills.
Number Line - Number line activities that promote counting skills and number sense.
Computational Fluency - Activities, games, and practice pages designed to develop and maintain computational fluency.
Number Corner is supposed to take 20 minutes every day. Bridges realizes that there is not time to do all five components every day and provides a complicated grid as to which ones to do each day. Too confusing for me and not consistent enough for students to grasp the concepts that are supposed to be covered each month. So, I chose the top three activities that I felt needed to be covered every day—counting school days, calendar, and the collector—and committed to them. Activities associated with the other two components—number line and computational fluency—I easily incorporate into our afternoon math period, which is about 45 minutes long.
As many of you know, I took Bridges’ collector idea and made it much more valuable and engaging. Truly. Trust me. There is now a built-in progression of skills that covers almost all of the math power standards. You can read about the changes I made here as well as get the activities to use in your own classroom. It is by far my students’ favorite part of Number Corner.
This post and video may result in you having more questions about Number Corner. Feel free to ask; I’m sure there are several things I forgot to mention.
Randee
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