Math talk moves

Provide explicit instruction on how to use Talk Moves during conversations and engage every student with this simple strategy.

One of our main curriculum initiatives is finding ways to deepen student understanding and interaction with knowledge through the use of journaling. While I have found journals in all the classrooms I have visited to this point, what they look like and how students are using them is as different as each teacher is in their teaching style. That is the wonderful thing about teaching, the art of teaching. I love seeing how each journal is different and how everyone has their own spin on…

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Are you looking for great ideas to start math talks in the classroom? Math Talk in the Classroom provides an engaging way to get students thinking deeply and interacting with each other around math concepts. With fun and creative prompts, ideas, and resources, you can get your elementary students talking math in no time. Plus, there's ideas for creating a math talk bulletin board. Get the math talk ideas here!

Learn how to guide math talk with these essential math talk moves. Grab a free classroom poster to use with your students to get you started!

Looking for a handy resource to help you organize and think through your number talks? This set of number talk planning pages makes it easy!

By Gladis Kersaint - 100 questions from a mathematics expert to help promote mathematical thinking and discourse in the classroom.

What are talk moves? "in a project designed to improve mathematical achievement of ELLs and other ethnic and linguistic minority students, Chapin, O'Connor, and Anderson (2009) found that careful...

I was introduced to number talks several years ago, but kind of threw it by the wayside and did a "number talk" every now and then. Last year I had heard several success stories from teachers who were using number talks faithfully in their classroom and I decided to give it a try. What would it hurt? Maybe if kids talked about numbers like they talked about football and princesses they would really start to like numbers. Number Talks is based off of the book Number Talks by Sherry Parrish…

Are you looking for a way to get your students to participate and contribute to discussion during math talk? This FREE set of math talk sentence starters by Hello Learning includes 18 speech bubbles with sentence frames and a matching bookmark for students. Hang the math talk sentence starters up on a bulletin board for a great reference during math discussions. Help your students become effective communicators with this free resource. Click to sign up and grab the resource today!