A collection of number talks teaching resources that support meaningful and highly engaging conversations in the mathematics classroom.
Number talks are daily maths activities that allow students to have meaningful and highly engaging conversations about mathematics. Incorporating these short, ten-minute daily exercises into your classroom routine not only helps students develop mental math and flexible thinking about numbers and operations, but also provides opportunities for them to investigate and apply mathematical connections and relationships.
This teaching resource pack supports number talks in the classroom with a range of task cards, a set of hand signal posters, and sentence starters for students to use in their conversations.
- Number Talks - Hand Signal Poster Pack
- Number Talks - Sentence Starters Poster Pack
- Number Talks - Data Analysis Task Cards
- Number Talks — Decimal Representation Task Cards
- Number Talks - Division Strategies Task Cards
- Number Talks - Double Digit Multiplication Task Cards
- Number Talks - Number Sense Task Cards
- Number Talks - Fractional Reasoning Task Cards
Thank you!! Great resources for rich discussions.
Hi Alex, Thank you for your lovely comment. I am so glad you are enjoying our resources.
I hope year 5 and 6 resource isn’t too far away. I keep checking!
Hi Kerri, Year 5 is available here: https://www.teachstarter.com/au/teaching-resource-pack/number-talks-teaching-resource-pack-grade-5-2/ Number Talks Grade 6 is underway and will be finished soon. If there is anything else I can assist you with, please don't hesitate to contact me.
This is awesome! Any chance we could have it as a power point so you could use it for whole class discussions?
Hi Sally, Thanks for your suggestion. Please feel free to request a resource here: https://www.teachstarter.com/request-a-resource/ Requests are voted on by the Teach Starter community. We create the top request each week. Please let me know if you have any further questions, I'm more than happy to help. Kind regards, Kristian
Will you be making this resource for Year 5 and Year 6? I hope so!!
Hello, just wondering if you have an eta on when these will be available for 5 and 6. Thank you
Hi Fiona, We absolutely are. You will begin to see Number Talks resources for grades 5 and 6 appearing on the site soon and the resource pack will follow once they have all been published.