Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-196) and index.

"Developing mathematical practices and deepening understanding, grades 4-10"--Cover.

What are number talks? Why are they important? -- Getting number talks started -- Guiding principles for enacting number talks in the classroom -- Prelude to the operations -- Subtraction across the grades -- Multiplication across the grades -- Addition across the grades -- Division across the grades -- Making sense of fractions (and decimals and percent) -- Number talks can spark investigations -- Managing bumps in the road -- Moving forward.

Making Number Talks Matter is about the myriad decisions facing teachers as they make this fifteen-minute daily routine a vibrant and vital part of their mathematics instruction. Throughout the book, Cathy Humphreys and Ruth Parker offer practical ideas for using Number Talks to help students learn to reason numerically and build a solid foundation for the study of mathematics. This book will be an invaluable resource whether you are already using Number Talks or not; whether you are an elementary, middle school, high school, or college teacher; or even if you are a parent wanting to support your child with mathematics.

Using insight gained from many years of doing Number Talks with students of all ages, Cathy and Ruth address questions to ask during Number Talks, teacher moves that turn the thinking over to students, the mathematics behind the various strategies, and ways to overcome bumps in the road. If you’ve been looking for ways to transform your mathematics classroom—to bring sense-making and divergent thinking to the foreground, to bring the Standards for Mathematical Practice to life, and to bring joy back into your instruction—this book is for you.--Page [4] of cover.