Mastering Mental Math With Number Talks

Number talks are short discussions about how to solve a particular mental math problem. The focus is not on the correct answer, but on all the possible methods of finding the answer. Each learner has a chance to explain their method, and everyone else will learn from other people's methods!

Learners get a short math problem to solve, but the learners are not allowed to use a calculator or paper & pencil. The idea is to solve it in one's head! Number Talks are short discussions focused on mental math and computational strategies. They promote the importance of being flexible with numbers and using a variety of strategies for computation. All learners are encouraged to share their mathematical thinking during Number Talks.

Week 1 (6/22/21): Making Tens
Week 2 (6/29/21): Landmark Numbers
Week 3 (7/6/21): Doubles and Near Doubles
Week 4 (7/13/21): Place Value Understanding
Week 5 (7/20/21): Multiplicative Comparisons
Week 6 (7/27/21): Fractional Comparisons
Week 7 (8/3/21): Making Tens
Week 8 (8/10/21):  Adding Up
Week 9 (8/17/21): Prime Numbers 
Week 10 (8/24/21): Multiplication
Week 11 (8/31/21): Adding Up
Week 12 (9/7/21): Friendly Numbers
Week 13 (9/14/21): Place Value
Week 14 (9/21/21): Finding Factors
Week 15 (10/5/21): Doubling and Halving
Week 16 (10/12/21): Partial Products
Week 17 (10/19/21): Algebraic Thinking
Week 18 (10/26/21): Fractional Thinking
Week 19 (10/26/21): Partial Quotients
Week 20 (11/2/21):  Comparing Fractions
Week 21 (11/9/21):  Area
Week 22 (11/16/21):  Repeated Subtraction
Week 23 (11/23/21):  Multiplication
Week 24 (11/30/21):  Division
Week 25 (12/7/21): Rounding
Week 26 (12/14/21): Creating Word Problems
Week 27 (12/3/21): Comparing Equations
Week 28 (12/21/21): Finding Factors
Week 29 (12/28/21): Word Problems