teaching resource

Number Talks - Sentence Starters Poster Pack

Updated: 05 Oct 2022

A pack of 16 sentence starters to use with children during a number talks maths routine.

Non-Editable: PDF
Pages: 8 Pages
Years: 1 - 6

Curriculum

Key Stage 1 (KS1)

Key Stage 1 (KS1) covers students in Year 1 and Year 2.
1. National Curriculum In England
Mathematics

The principal focus of mathematics teaching in key stage 1 is to ensure that pupils develop confidence and mental fluency with whole numbers, counting and place value. This should involve working with numerals, words and the four operations, includin...
1. Key Stage 1 (KS1)
Key Stage 2 (KS2) - Lower

Key Stage 2 (KS2) - Lower covers students in Year 3 and Year 4.
1. National Curriculum In England
Mathematics

The principal focus of mathematics teaching in lower key stage 2 is to ensure that pupils become increasingly fluent with whole numbers and the four operations, including number facts and the concept of place value. This should ensure that pupils dev...
1. Key Stage 2 (KS2) - Lower
Key Stage 2 (KS2) – Upper

Key Stage 2 (KS2) - Upper covers students in Year 5 and Year 6.
1. National Curriculum In England
Mathematics

The principal focus of mathematics teaching in upper key stage 2 is to ensure that pupils extend their understanding of the number system and place value to include larger integers. This should develop the connections that pupils make between multipl...
1. Key Stage 2 (KS2) – Upper

teaching resource

Number Talks - Sentence Starters Poster Pack

Updated: 05 Oct 2022

A pack of 16 sentence starters to use with children during a number talks maths routine.

Non-Editable: PDF
Pages: 8 Pages
Years: 1 - 6

A pack of 16 sentence starters to use with children during a number talks maths routine.

These educational posters include the following sentence starters that can be included in any number talks maths routine:

One relationship I noticed was…
My strategy is different than ___ because…
I would like to add…
I know my solution is correct because…
One way to model this would be…
I disagree with ___ because…
I agree with ___ because…
I saw it a different way because…
I would like to rethink my solution because…
My strategy is similar to ___ because…
My solution is…
The strategy I used was…
I can prove my thinking by…
I noticed that…
Two blank speech bubbles to add your own sentence starters.

Curriculum

Key Stage 1 (KS1)

Key Stage 1 (KS1) covers students in Year 1 and Year 2.
1. National Curriculum In England
Mathematics

The principal focus of mathematics teaching in key stage 1 is to ensure that pupils develop confidence and mental fluency with whole numbers, counting and place value. This should involve working with numerals, words and the four operations, includin...
1. Key Stage 1 (KS1)
Key Stage 2 (KS2) - Lower

Key Stage 2 (KS2) - Lower covers students in Year 3 and Year 4.
1. National Curriculum In England
Mathematics

The principal focus of mathematics teaching in lower key stage 2 is to ensure that pupils become increasingly fluent with whole numbers and the four operations, including number facts and the concept of place value. This should ensure that pupils dev...
1. Key Stage 2 (KS2) - Lower
Key Stage 2 (KS2) – Upper

Key Stage 2 (KS2) - Upper covers students in Year 5 and Year 6.
1. National Curriculum In England
Mathematics

The principal focus of mathematics teaching in upper key stage 2 is to ensure that pupils extend their understanding of the number system and place value to include larger integers. This should develop the connections that pupils make between multipl...
1. Key Stage 2 (KS2) – Upper

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