Number Talks
A Number Talk is a brief, ongoing, daily routine that helps students develop computational fluency through the opportunity to share their thinking processes aloud. The Number Talk is a useful assessment tool to use to see if the concept being developed has been grasped by learners.
The East Ayrshire SAC Numeracy Team have delivered live and webinar CLPL sessions on the implementation of Number Talks within classroom practice. The following link will take you to the Teacher Guide, Implementation Plan, training PowerPoint, resources and associated tasks that have been collated, created and shared to support the development and implementation of the Number Talks approach.
Number Talks Resources
Steve Wyborney’s Splats
Splats are a great tool to engage learners in mathematical talk and link to the development of subitising and developing number sense in counting, addition subtraction and fractions. Check out the free PowerPoint lesson resources on Steve’s blog. Click on the boxes below to access Steve’s blog. Alternatively, click on this link to access the downloaded Splat resources.
