Teaching Resource Pack
Number Talks Teaching Resource Pack - Grade 2
A collection of number talks teaching resources that support meaningful and highly engaging conversations in the mathematics classroom.
Number talks are daily maths activities that allow students to have meaningful and highly engaging conversations about mathematics. Incorporating these short, ten-minute daily exercises into your classroom routine not only helps students develop mental maths skills and flexible thinking about numbers and operations, but also provides opportunities for them to investigate and apply mathematical connections and relationships.
This teaching resource pack supports number talks in the classroom with a range of task cards, a set of hand signal posters, and sentence starters for students to use in their conversations.
This teaching resource pack includes:
- Number Talks – Place Value Task Cards
- Number Talks – Near, Far, and in Between Task Cards
- Number Talks – Making Numbers Task Cards
- Number Talks – Fluency to 20 Task Cards
- Number Talks – Double Digit Subtraction Task Cards
- Number Talks – Double Digit Addition Task Cards
- Number Talks – Sentence Starters Poster Pack
- Number Talks – Hand Signal Poster Pack
- Number Talks – How Many Task Cards
NSW Curriculum alignment
- MA1-4NA
WholeNumbers - applies place value, informally, to count, order, read and represent two- and three-digit numbers
- MA1-5NA
AdditionandSubtraction - uses a range of strategies and informal recording methods for addition and subtraction involving one- and two-digit numbers
- MA1-6NA
MultiplicationandDivision - uses a range of mental strategies and concrete materials for multiplication and division
Victorian Curriculum alignment
- VCMNA104
Recognise, model, represent and order numbers to at least 1000
- VCMNA105
Group, partition and rearrange collections up to 1000 in hundreds, tens and ones to facilitate more efficient counting
- VCMNA106
Explore the connection between addition and subtraction
- VCMNA107
Solve simple addition and subtraction problems using a range of efficient mental and written strategies
- VCMNA108
Recognise and represent multiplication as repeated addition, groups and arrays
Australian Curriculum alignment
- ACMNA027
Recognise, model, represent and order numbers to at least 1000
- ACMNA028
Group, partition and rearrange collections up to 1000 in hundreds, tens and ones to facilitate more efficient counting
- ACMNA029
Explore the connection between addition and subtraction
- ACMNA030
Solve simple addition and subtraction problems using a range of efficient mental and written strategies
- ACMNA031
Recognise and represent multiplication as repeated addition, groups and arrays
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This is AWESOME! Can you please do some more????
Olivia Takacs · Apr 27th, 2020
Hi there Olivia. I’m so glad you enjoyed using this resource and that you are keen for more Number Talks resources! So we can keep all of our suggestions and requests together, can you please submit a change request to this resource using the Changes & Updates tab above? This tab can be found near the comments section. Thanks again, and have a wonderful day!
Stephanie (Teach Starter) · Apr 28th, 2020