Math discourse

By Gladis Kersaint - 100 questions from a mathematics expert to help promote mathematical thinking and discourse in the classroom.

Use these 6 strategies and tips to help your students embrace making mistakes in math. From completing error analysis activities to creating a safe classroom culture, you'll be sure to help your perfectionist students love making mistakes in math. This blog post contains helpful tips for teachers as they build classroom communities focused on math discourse, learning, and making mistakes. #4thgrademath #5thgrademath #erroranalysis

Teachers, are you looking for ways to engage your upper elementary students in meaningful math discourse? Read my best strategies, discussion ideas, tips, and tricks to making sure your students discuss math problem solving and strategies in meaningful ways. Click to grab a free list of math discussion prompts and starters to engage your students and read easily to implement strategies.

It’s so important to be intentional and to think about not only the types of math questions we are asking but also the pattern in which we’re asking them.

Math Talks Sentence Starters

This website talks about why talking about math concepts is important. It allows students to have a deeper understanding of the topics being covered in class. It must be done in a supportive and collaborative environment.

It’s so important to be intentional and to think about not only the types of math questions we are asking but also the pattern in which we’re asking them.

"Math Talk" poster

Math extended response

Easy ways to increase student participation in mathematical discourse in the upper elementary math classroom, grade 3, 4, 5 common core aligned math group work

Math Talk Moves: Poster-10 Pack 24x36

Common Core together with a large body of research has made it clear that encouraging talking and discourse during math has a huge impact on student thinking. It’s not enough to just know the right answer, instead students have to communicate their understanding, think critically, and build upon other’s ideas.

Help every learner grow to their personal best with assessment that empowers instruction, literacy that inspires insight, and mathematics that stimulates discourse.

An educational blog based on the lessons, reflections and professional development of teacher.

Anchor chart for helping students purposefully self-reflect on learning.

If you are an upper elementary teacher, this post by Hello Learning will give you tips and ideas for setting up a classroom learning environment for successful number talks. Includes ideas for number talks hand signals, gather spaces, norms, and math discussion prompts. Get your 4th grade or 5th grade students engaged in number talks to support math talk and math strategy building. Number talks are a great way to help students strengthen mental math skills. Click to read more!

Are you looking for a way to get your students to participate and contribute to discussion during math talk? This FREE set of math talk sentence starters by Hello Learning includes 18 speech bubbles with sentence frames and a matching bookmark for students. Hang the math talk sentence starters up on a bulletin board for a great reference during math discussions. Help your students become effective communicators with this free resource. Click to sign up and grab the resource today!

Math Discourse Posters and Sentence Stems (In Spanish!)