Nestled about 25 miles west of Lincoln, Seward, Neb., (population 7,000) is just small enough that the town’s weekly newspaper features a "Classroom of the Week" in each issue, dedicating a full page to highlight an elementary classroom from a local school. Typically the teachers select students' artwork to brighten the page; but Primarily Math's Connie Meyer chose to feature her students engaged in "talking math." The feature shows Meyer's second-graders working on math problems with captions that transcribe their conversation. For example, little Emalee says, "In the tens column you call it six tens, not just plain old six."
Check out the rest of the students' conversations at: http://go.unl.edu/meyerseward