All of my Grade 2/Primary 3 number talks focus on addition and subtraction. But I know I'll have kids my class who are already proficient with their multiplication tables and early division, so I was thinking ahead to that a bit.
Having a look online, I found this article 'Number Talks Build Numerical Reasoning' by Sherry Parrish (author of Number Talks). It gives an illustration of a 4th grade (Primary 5) multiplication number talk - well worth a read to see if you can follow the mathematical thinking of this group of 9 year olds! This is the kind of thinking with numbers that I want to be developing in my own class.
Having a look online, I found this article 'Number Talks Build Numerical Reasoning' by Sherry Parrish (author of Number Talks). It gives an illustration of a 4th grade (Primary 5) multiplication number talk - well worth a read to see if you can follow the mathematical thinking of this group of 9 year olds! This is the kind of thinking with numbers that I want to be developing in my own class.
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