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Fall 2015
Briefly describe the student responses you anticipated before facilitating the number talk. If students responded in
unanticipated ways during your actual number talk, you can also comment on what surprised you. (1-2 paragraphs)
I assumed that the strategy of breaking down a problem and skip counting were going to be the most
common solutions amongst the students. I wanted the students to explain why they wanted to break
down a certain number to derive their answer. To show the break down, I tried to show the breakdown
in just number form and it drawn out as an array. That way, the students who are visual learners could
access the information. When it came to skip counting, I wanted to show how many times each
student skip counted and what number they skip counted by. By seeing me write out all the times they
skip counted, I was hoping they would see how much easier it would have been if they broke the
number down instead.
ED 531
Fall 2015