Math Practice #5

For Grades 6 & 7, this resource includes 12 two-day lessons that encourage multiple representations and diagnostic teaching. It also offers guidance for valuable teacher-led discussion and includes "Teacher Tune-ups" to support teacher content knowledge.

This document outlines four design principles and eight mathematical language routines provide support for promoting mathematical language use and development through curriculum and instruction.  A design goal is to make language development and integral part of planning and delivering instruction.

This book is essential for math educators at all levels. It provides ample time to pause periodically and talk with our students about our mathematical talk. 

This resource illustrates the use sentence starters to help all students learn productive ways to ask and respond to questions, to make statements, and to agree and disagree with each other.

From the National Science Foundation, these two pages outline the major talk moves along with sentence/question stems to support them.

This resource includes a number of instructional routines with the purpose of engaging students in discourse.

This resource is a great one-pager to post and to share with students.

In this book, suggestions for best practices for small group mathematics instruction are addressed in detail. Teaching with small groups allows for both remediation and enrichment. Dixon et al. include video vignettes.

This two-page resource summarizes ideas from Classroom Discussions in Math (Chapin, O'Connor, and Anderson, 2013).

Cathy Humphreys and Ruth Parker extend number talks strategies and tools into the secondary school grades. See also their follow-up book, Digging Deeper:  Making Number Talks Matter Even More.

While the title says "K-6," the strategies presented here are just as valuable at the secondary level.

This text, available in middle and high school versions, is designed to enhance discussions in mathematics classrooms.

Part of Colorado's series on the NCTM Effective Mathematics Teaching Practices, this resource considers the following questions about discourse: What are teachers doing? What are students doing?  

This Google Drive folder includes resources from a workshop on discourse facilitated by Beth Herbel-Eisenmann.

This Google Drive folder contains a variety of resources that support academically productive talk (discourse/discussion) in classrooms.

This page includes 14 sentence starters that can be printed and displayed in the room or on tables within the classroom.