Number Talk 2 Circles - 1 & 2 Circles adding up to ten

This is a new interactive maths PowerPoint for Number Talk.  It follows the same idea as Number Talk 1 but using circles this time instead of ten/twenty frames and sums equalling up to ten. I find the children engage more when you change between the two.  Number Talk is a brilliant activity to develop the children's number sense and subitising skills. You can use this PowerPoint twice/three times a week for ten minutes before you begin your maths lesson. The children really enjoy this activity and it is a great way to get them focused at the beginning of a maths lesson. The main idea with number talk is that they don't use their whiteboard or paper. They have to work out the sum in their heads and tell you how they saw it. For example if they see three dots on the circle, they might say my answer is 3 and if I ask how did you see it, they might say 'Well I saw 2 and then I saw one more.

The teacher will show the circle with the dots and the children have to count how many they see. If you want to make it more challenging you can show the circle for 5 seconds and then press the interactive PowerPoint to turn it around. Make sure you have the PowerPoint in the slideshow and click on the count the dots box on each slide. 

In this PowerPoint there is:

• The important hand signals for 'Number Talk'
• 20 interactive sums using the one circle
• 15 interactive sums using two circles
• A blank template for both the single circle and double circle - all you need to do is add the circles that you want by going into insert shape on your PowerPoint. You can use circles, or any shape. This doesn’t have the interactive element over it 
• 2 worksheets for the circles to use as an additional activity with the PowerPoint. Show the sum for 5/6 seconds and then cover it over and then the children have to copy what they saw on the worksheet