Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to Episode 10. Today we are looking at how to make number talks matter.

Before we get started I wanted to thank Stenhouse Publishers for providing a discount for any of you who want to purchase the book I’m talking about today. They are the publisher of the book and they have given you guys a discount, just go over to the show notes at buildmathminds.com/10 to get the details.

Number Talks have become popular over the last few years but were actually created back in the 1990s by Ruth Parker and Kathy Richardson. Ruth has a long history of implementing number talks and she teamed up with Cathy Humphreys to write the book Making Number Talks Matter in 2015.

This book is full of tips and information about how to ensure Number Talks are a time of quality instruction that builds your students’ understandings of Subtraction, Multiplication, Addition, Division, and Fractions, Decimals & Percents.

Today I’d like to talk about one of the Guiding Principles for Number Talks that they discuss in the book.