Number Talks with Preservice Teachers Fall 2021 Fall is my favorite time of year. The weather is getting cooler and the trees are changing colors. Football- marching band season is upon us! None of those are the reasons why I like the fall. I love fall because it’s the first semester of the academic year. The fall semester is my favorite time because I teach math methods at my favorite HBCU, Alabama A&M University. It’s time to blog about my adventures in math methods. Teacher candidates are special to me and their mathematical thinking matters significantly. Therefore, I take copious amounts of pictures, blogs, and anecdotal notes about the happenings in the math methods class. The most difficult part of the semester is getting them interested in thinking about mathematics in multiple ways. That is where Number Talks come in. Number Talks (NT) is a 5 to 15-minute ritual in mathematics that supports students’ procedural fluency with conceptual understanding. During NT, th