Shauhna Feitlin La Habra City School District Academic Coach Let’s Talk Numbers Shauhna Feitlin La Habra City School District Academic Coach

What is a Number Talk Cathy Humphreys & Ruth Parker Short, daily routine that provides students opportunity for meaningful computation. Students use relationships and the structure of numbers to add, subtract, multiply and divide. Sherry Parrish

Why Number Talks?

Dot Cards All students... Need only to describe what they see Communicate thinking clearly Try to understand other people’s thinking

25 x 18

True or False 79 x 25 = 75 x 29

Number Strings Cathy Fosnot A set of related problems crafted to support a mathematical idea The first and second problems are entry problems Third and fourth build off of the first two The last problem is the “messy” problem

Let’s give it a try!

Video Clip How do the succession of problems provide a scaffold? What teacher moves encouraged thinking and communicating with other students? https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/common-core-teaching-division

Thoughts for Successful Number Talks Number Talks have a purpose Thinking together - “How else could we think about that” Gradual pressing Learning to listen Doing Number Talks regularly Students talking to each other

Group Discussion Why not just use flashcards to develop fluency? How can Number Talks/Strings develop conceptual understanding, and procedural skills and fluency?