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Number Talks
Number Talks
The GOAL of Number Talks: To talk about Numbers and Build Number Sense
The GOAL of Number Talks: To talk about Numbers and Build Number Sense
Number Sense is "...a good intuition about numbers and their relationships. It develops gradually as a result of exploring numbers, visualizing them in a variety of contexts, and relating them in ways that are not limited by traditional algorithms." ~Howden, 1989
Number Sense is "...a good intuition about numbers and their relationships. It develops gradually as a result of exploring numbers, visualizing them in a variety of contexts, and relating them in ways that are not limited by traditional algorithms." ~Howden, 1989
Inside Mathematics: Problem of the Month
Inside Mathematics: Problem of the Month
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Welcome
This site is created to store all the math resources available for ACCESS staff (teachers, paraeducators, tutors, etc.) It is still work in progress. Please be patient as things get upgraded. Feel free to make suggestions or corrections by emailing me. Thank you for all the work you do with our students. I hope the resources on this site will be useful for you and your students in the classroom.
~Katherine Lu
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"If we only teach conceptual approaches to math without developing skill at actually solving math problems, students will feel weak. Their mathematical powers will be flimsy. And if they don't memorize anything, if they don't know the basic facts of addition and multiplication or, later, geometry or still later, calculus, it becomes impossible for them to be creative. It's like in music. You need to have technique before you can create a composition of your own. But if all we do is teach technique, no one will want to play music at all."
"If we only teach conceptual approaches to math without developing skill at actually solving math problems, students will feel weak. Their mathematical powers will be flimsy. And if they don't memorize anything, if they don't know the basic facts of addition and multiplication or, later, geometry or still later, calculus, it becomes impossible for them to be creative. It's like in music. You need to have technique before you can create a composition of your own. But if all we do is teach technique, no one will want to play music at all."
From Steven Strogatz, Professor of Applied Mathematics at Cornell University
What are Number Talks?
A brief daily practice where students mentally solve computation problems and talk about their strategies.
Students learn to make sense of mathematics in their own ways
Students learn to dig deeper into why mathematical procedures work
Students learn to critique and build on the ideas of their peers and support their answer with mathematical reasoning
[From Math Perspective Website]
From Stanford Onlines How To Learn Math for Teachers and Parents Number Talks.mp4
Ted Talk on Teaching Kids real math with computers
Ted Talk on Teaching Kids real math with computers
Conrad Wolfram- Teaching kids real math with computers.mp4Standards for Mathematical Practice (SMP)
Standards for Mathematical Practice (SMP)
Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them
Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them
Reason abstractly and quantitatively
Reason abstractly and quantitatively
Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others
Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others
Model with mathematics
Model with mathematics
Use appropriate tools strategically
Use appropriate tools strategically
Attend to precision
Attend to precision
Look for and make use of structure
Look for and make use of structure
Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning
Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning
High-School-CCSS-Modeling-Standards.pdf
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