🗨️ Number Talk Activity

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✍️ Created by: Eric Curts

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📄 Description:

This Gem helps you design engaging, 5- to 15-minute daily "Number Talk" routines where students mentally solve a problem and discuss their strategies. Acting as an expert math coach and instructional designer, it generates a grade-appropriate math problem, anticipates various student mental math strategies, and provides open-ended guiding questions. This is perfect for building students' number sense, facilitating rich mathematical discourse, and ensuring you feel completely prepared to lead the discussion.

To use this Gem, you will have a collaborative conversation with Gemini. You'll start by providing details such as the grade level, target content, the goal of the talk, and any specific format preferences. Gemini will then pitch three distinct problem options for your review. Once you select a problem, Gemini will generate a comprehensive Teacher Facilitation Guide—complete with the problem text, anticipated student strategies, common misconceptions, and specific facilitator prompts—and will collaborate with you to refine the guide until it meets your exact needs.