Classroom-Ready Number Talks for Third, Fourth and Fifth Grade Teachers: 1000 Interactive Math Activities that Promote Conceptual Understanding and Computational Fluency (Books for Teachers)

This book contains many varieties of problems along with sample strategies for each. It is easy to use for a beginner or veteran of number talks.

Ummmmmm I am just going to state the obvious here, this book is AMAZING. As someone who is not a number person, I wish that this book was around when I was kid. This book is an amazing way to make mat fun again both for your students and for you as a teacher! Ever feel the struggle of putting together a fun and creative lesson plan? Fear no more, this book is genuinly going to save you from more than a few tired nights of trying to put those together. This book is the creative AND strategic solution we have all been waiting for. I love the helpful tips that come along too, it's as if this author is in the mind of both myself, and the students. The struggle is real and this book aims to reduce the struggle - benefiting both student and teacher. I have dranken this authors cool aid because the book and subject material, speak for itself. Going through the lessons has made me fall in love with teaching again! The visual aids and tips really set this book apart and I highly recommend it to anyone.

Classroom Ready Number Talks is a useful guidebook for teachers of third, fourth, and fifth grade classrooms. The book introduces a strategy, called Number talks, for teachers (both in the classroom and outside!) to teach students simple mathematical processes. Number talks allow students to build computational fluency, continue mental computation practice, actively engage in learning, and much more. The book is complete with examples and easy to follow graphics and diagrams that simplify the concept in a way that is both easy to teach and easy to learn. It is divided into four sections: addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions. For each task, the book offers several strategies to go about completing the problem. While the book seems to be created for a classroom setting, it could also be a really helpful tool for parents, older siblings, and babysitters to support young students in learning basic math skills. I highly recommend! (and the strategies might just be helpful for adults too!!!)

If you're looking for a good book or guide to teach kids some math principles this would be an excellent purchase to make. I've always found the way math is explained in normal textbooks and to kids in class to be a bit one size fits all, this is a great option if the kid in your life is a more visual learner. This book is excellent if you want to create a great foundation that can be built upon later, fundamentals are key as many of these principles will be used over and over again in a child's academic career. I think this is great for both kids who may be struggling or just a great way to get your child ready for what's to come, it'll surely help either way.

This is an extraordinary book for teaching math in a way that is intuitive to students, rather than laying down a series of abstract rules that students are expected to memorize and punished for failing to understand. It helps visual and kinesthetic learners develop a deep understanding of math that will let them build on future math lessons. There are several studies demonstrating that students learn best when they connect information to prior knowledge. While accuracy is emphasized, the process is more important than the answers.As far as structure goes, the book covers addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, as well as fractions and decimals. I'm very glad I found this book!

This is a great book if you are looking for many different strategies for doing all math operations. It encourages the idea of students solving problems with various strategies and encourages their communication about how they solved their problems. I agree with others that this would be a great resource for parents and such who only learned the traditional way to add, subtract, multiply and divide.I was looking for number talks that are more open-ended and allow a variety of ways to solve the problems. I was looking more for those similar to those by Jo Boaler or Sharry Parish. They are sometimes called High/Low questions. Since it wasn't what I needed I did return the book. Make sure you look inside the book at the type of problems before purchasing the book.

As a person who did not learn this way, but wants to help tutor kids in math, this is invaluable. If you’ve never worked this way, looking at a piece of homework with a bunch of squares is really confusing. I also know some moms who could use this when they try to help their kids with their homework. My only issue is with the fractions, I honestly just did not understand how the number line is supposed to help if you’re the one drawing the line? But here’s my dirty secret: I somehow, in moving around during those years and switching school, never really learned fractions solidly the way everyone else did. So I’m using that chapter for myself!!

Rarely does a book like this exceed my expectations. This one certainly did. Intelligently written (even down to the readability of the font and page layout!)--it is a fabulous resource for a parent or a teacher. Clear, concise, and comprehensive. Beats my kids' textbooks! I recommend it highly. Best purchase I've made on Amazon in ages.

Very clear information. Step by step guide to implementing lessons.

Great resource to get kids talking math. Excellent to supplement a short morning discussion or provide students with an opportunity to work independently/small groups to dig deeper into their thinking. Great discussion starter.

My students loved these. Great conversation starter.