Sunday, October 9, 2016

Number Talks

In an effort to help our students increase their capacity to stick with a problem and articulate their thinking while doing so, we can engage in daily Number Talks.

Some suggestions:

  • Number talks should happen daily. I incorporated them into my daily morning routine. When lesson planning, I simply wrote in the problem I wanted to use each day.
  • Number talks can be done with kids on the carpet, or at their desks. Even the big kids do like coming to sit together and it facilitates "elbow partner" conversations.
  • Number talk problems DO NOT need to match your current math curriculum. In other words, even though I might be doing fractions, I am not going to offer that as a number talk problem, because the purpose of number talks is to allow students to make and break apart numbers using simple operations.
  • Helpful links:
Here are some number talks:

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