Numeracy Development Talks for Grades 6-8 are designed to review grades 3-5 concepts involving fractions, decimals, and computation while previewing foundational grade 6-8 representations and strategies for rational numbers, ratios, rates, and percents. These resources help teachers to connect review topics, such as locating and labeling fractions and decimals on number lines, directly to essential grade 6 strategies and concepts, such as representing negative rational numbers or equivalent fractions, decimals, and percents on a percent bar.

These resources are built around videos that structure a Numeracy Development Talk with a class or small group of students. The video briefly reviews essential representations, strategies, and concepts. Then, the group or class of students completes a set of problem-solving challenges where they build representations and solve problems using a set of magnetic manipulatives on a whiteboard. Instructional notes for the video help teachers focus their questioning strategies and identify pause points in the video to address diagram comprehension, concept development, and vocabulary. Finally, students apply what they have learned through daily problem-solving tasks and practice pages.