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Add some Christmas fun to your December number talk routine with this special Christmas version of my popular Math Conversations number talks resource! It's sure to engage your students, even throughout the hectic holiday season. Number talks are a powerful way for your students to build number sense and fact fluency.
This is a completely DONE-FOR-YOU resource with NO prep involved. Simply choose a number talk slide, project it, and discuss - then get ready to see your math conversations transform!
Your students will be working with different types of problems, and will be presented with powerful visuals and models that they will work with in strategic ways. This will build critical thinking skills and flexibility.
During this number talk routine, students will share and reflect on each others’ strategies. They will learn that math is not all about right answers - it is about thinking flexibly and strategically! As you continue this routine, your students’ math confidence with soar and they will learn to look at problems differently than they have in the past.
This math talk resource was created with the following philosophies in mind:
- Math is about more than a correct answer. It is about flexible and strategic thinking and the ability to reason.
- Focusing on different ways of thinking should be a priority.
- Students benefit from discussing their own strategies and considering the strategies of others.
- There is no one right way to solve a problem.
What's Included?
This resource includes twenty daily math conversation prompts for your number talk routine. Use one per day throughout December as a math warm-up to encourage flexible and strategic thinking. These are delivered to you in Google Slides™ format, but can be saved as a PowerPoint and presented that way.
The slides are also included in a printable PDF format. This will enable you to print them and use as small group math tasks, vertical whiteboard tasks, or as exit slip activities.
Testimonials
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "My students liked working together to try to figure out the answers. They were able to come up with several answers as they worked together. They loved the holiday themed questions." Lori S.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "We loved using this resource! It was easy to use and generated so many valuable math discussions amongst all of my students in my class. Sharing our thinking and strategies of how to solve different math problems has improved my students' abilities and confidence during our math lessons. These Math Talk slides are also great in allowing all students (of varying abilities) to access and take part in." Beth L.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "My students absolutely love this! I have seen great growth in their number sense and reasoning!" Janna E.
