Volume 1, Edition 35 – Using Number Talks to Build Students’ Math Reasoning

Welcome to this week’s edition of Best Practices Weekly. Today we’ll be discussing best practices for improving students’ math reasoning skills through the strategy of number talks.

While teachers want to build their students’ math reasoning skills, it can be difficult to find simple and efficient structures within the day to do so. In an article for Teaching Children Mathematics, University of Alabama – Birmingham professor Sherry Parrish offers the strategy of “number talks” as a useful tool to address this problem.

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