Description
Strengthen your students’ math skills with these Balancing Addition & Subtraction Equations Prompts! These Number Talks Task Cards provide engaging prompts to help students practice and master addition, subtraction, and equality into one task. Perfect for interactive math lessons and math centers.
Number talks can be built into your daily schedule as short, daily exercises aimed at building number sense. Number sense is the ability to understand numbers and quantities, to use numbers flexibly, and to perform calculations mentally.
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Purchasing this Resource Gives You Access to…
- 30 prompt cards for 3 weeks of powerful number conversations
- 6 recording sheet options for math centers and assessment.
- Teaching Guide & Question Stems
- Math Talk Anchor Chart
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The Gentle Jungle –
My students love using this resource. It is so easy to use. Thank you!
Rebecca M. –
Great resource. Students are engaged and challenged.
Emma B. –
My students always struggle with this skill, so this was a great way for them to practice.
Natalie T. –
A great independent math center for a tricky math concept!
Ellie Wooten –
This is such a tricky standard for my first graders, and this resource has given lots of opportunity for repeated practice. They love when they see the math balance & cards in their math tub!
Joyce LaMont –
These work great and align with my classroom equal values scale. It’s a great visual and hands on activity packet
Sara O. –
This concept can be very tricky and these activities really helped my students understand it better! Thank you!
Danielle Okane –
My students enjoyed completing the task cards as a scavenger hunt. a good variety of challenge you can easily copy the cards onto different colours to allow all sts an entry point to this task.
Crystal T. –
My students loved these activities. It was so fun and engaging. Perfect for centers.
Megan Little –
This pack really helped ramp up our number talks. Students used it during centers to support number sense.
Brandon M. –
Great practice for reviewing this skill with my first graders!
Haley M. –
Great resource for small group or as a center for students to balance equations.
Becky Schulte –
These cards along with number balances are my students favorite math center. My students this year really understand the concept on balanced equations.
Anna T. –
Balancing equations is always a hard concept for my students, but I love using this along with my balance beam to help them interact with the manipulative with more accountability. I can definitely see the improvements and interest in my students now.
Bridget E. –
This is a great number talks resource. Thank you!
Catrina B. –
Love all the different number talk options you provide