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?
100
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?
100
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?
100
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?
100
Each time you, the teacher, compare student strategies, discuss relationship and make links with operations in mathematics, you are grounding your student in this.
What is connecting mathematical ideas?
200
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?
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 is given at the end of each week to reinforce the expectation in the classroom of accuracy, flexibility, and efficiency.
What is giving a weekly computation assessment?
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 number fluency?
300
In mathematics these key ideas are used as the foundation for building the computational strategies.
What is composition and decomposition of numbers, our system of tens, and the application of properties?
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
When students use signals to have a strategy (strategies) to solve a problem
What is using thumb and finger signals?
300
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?
300
The student will create opportunities to link their thinking to these as they invent their own strategies
What are mathematical properties?
400
This encourages students to bulid on number relationships to solve problems instead of relying on memorized procedures.
What is Mental Computation?
400
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 Nnumber talks
400
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?
400
To build understanding about the mathematical concepts, relationships, and understanding you must begin here.
What is starting with smaller problems?
400
When students can apply their understanding in computation in different situations and on a continual basis.
What is an understanding of place value?
500
The introduction of number talks is a pivotal vehicle to help develop this kind of computation strategies.
What is Efficient, Flexible and Accurate?
500
Consider which mathematical ideas you want to highlight and how you might record the strategies to support those specific concepts.
What is anticipating potential strategies?
500
To focus on individual students or small groups of students that with a common mathematical need.
What is holding small group number talks?
500
When the teacher is struggling to follow the student's logic or needs time to consider a student's response may want to do this.
What is putting a student's strategy on the back burner?
500
An awareness and understanding about what numbers are, their relationships, their magnitude, the relative effect of operating on numbers, including the use of mental mathematics and estimation.