There is a shift in the role of telling and explaining to the interrelated role of facilitator, questioner, listener, and learner.
What is the teacher's role?
100
A way to signal the importance of number talks and serves as a reminder that the class is transitioning as learners into a unique time of the day.
What is a designated location for Number Talks?
100
When students use signals to have strategy (strategies) to solve a problem
What is using thumb and finger signals?
100
To stay cognizant of the students attendtion and focus time, a teacher must do this.
What is limiting number talks to 5 to 15 minutes?
100
To immediately recognize a collection of objects as a single unit
What is Subitizing?
200
Doing this helps to guide students to focus on mathematical relationships which is an essential part of number talks and is used to build mathematical understanding and knowledge
What is purposeful computation problems?
200
By doing this, a message is sent to the students who respond quickly that they need to keep thinking about additional strategies that will work. This also provides additional time for students that need more time to think about their response
What is appropriate wait time?
200
This provides an opportuntiy for the students to use and test their ideas.
What is requiring students to solve an exit problem using the discussed strategies?
200
Students need assistance to enter the conversation when Number Talks first starts. A teacher can offer this to the students.
What is a strategy from a previous student?
200
Knowing how a number can be composed and decomposed and using that information to be flexible and efficient with solving problems.
What is developing Number Fluency?
300
The introduction of number talks is a pivotal vehicle to help develop this kind of computation strategies.
What is Efficient, Flexible and Accurate?
300
When the teacher uses the "blank face" during number talks. This nurtures rich mathematical discussion to occur and to identify misconception in mathematical thinking.
What is accepting, respecting and considering all answers?
300
This is given at the end of each week to reinforce the expectation in the classroom of accuracy, flexibiity, and efficiency.
What is giving a weekly computation assessment?
300
To bulid understanding about the mathematical concepts, relationships, and understanding you must begin here.
What is starting with smaller problems?
300
An awareness and understanding about what numbers are, their relationships, their magnitue, the relative effect of operating on numbers, including the use of mental mathematics and estimation.
What is Number Sense?
400
This encourages students to bulid on number relationships to solve problems instead of relying on memorized procedures.
What is mental computation?
400
When students share individual strategies or respond to others' strategies. Asking students to think on their own and then turn and talk to someone close to them is an important vehicle for establishing this.
What is encouraging student productive communication?
400
To focus on individual students or small groups of students that with a common mathematical need.
What is holding small group number talks?
400
Discussions will not go perfectly well all of the time, make adjustments and keep moving forward. Most of all keep this in mind.
What is being patient with yourself and your students?
400
When student have opportunities to count objects and organize them into groups of ten and to begin constructing an understanding of this.
What is an understanding of Place Value?
500
In mathematics these key ideas are used as the foundation for building the computational strategies.
What is composition and decompostion of numbers, our system of tens, and the application of properties?
500
Consider which matematical ideas you want to highlight and how you might record the strategies to support those specific concepts.
What is anticipating potential strategies?
500
The living documents that provides a way of engaging students in formulating the strategies for the operations.
What is creating and posting class strategy charts?
500
During Number Talks, when the student's strategy is confusing or their logic is hard to follow, you can do this.
What is putting the student's strategy on the back burner?
500
Dot images, rekenreks, five- and ten-frames and number lines can be used to help students build understanding.