Talking About Numbers

Number Talks were created by Kathy Richardson and Ruth Parker in the early 1990s to engage students in meaningful mathematical discourse and sense-making as well as transform the culture of the classroom to one of inquiry and curiosity.

Number Talks are a brief (5 to 15 minutes), daily routines that focus on the development of number sense. It is an opportunity for your students to do the talking. How great is that! During a number talk, students are thinking, asking their peers questions, and explaining their own thinking. 

My classroom is a work in progress when it comes to Number Talks but I would not be as successful as I am if not for some fantastic resources! Check them out in my Resource and Website Links -  Just to get you started!

“The heart of number talks is classroom conversations focused on making sense of mathematics”