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

2. 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

3. Why Number Talks?

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

14. 25 x 18

18. True or False
79 x 25 = 75 x 29

19. 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

20. Let’s give it a try!

21. Video Clip How do the succession of problems provide a scaffold?
What teacher moves encouraged thinking and communicating with other students?

22. 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

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