diff --git a/lms/djangoapps/django_comment_client/forum/views.py b/lms/djangoapps/django_comment_client/forum/views.py
index b8991a86d6..5eb9582f90 100644
--- a/lms/djangoapps/django_comment_client/forum/views.py
+++ b/lms/djangoapps/django_comment_client/forum/views.py
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ def get_threads(request, course_id, discussion_id=None, per_page=THREADS_PER_PAG
 
     query_params = merge_dict(default_query_params,
                               strip_none(extract(request.GET, ['page', 'sort_key', 'sort_order', 'text', 'tags', 'commentable_ids'])))
-    
+
     threads, page, num_pages = cc.Thread.search(query_params)
 
     query_params['page'] = page
@@ -248,6 +248,7 @@ def single_thread(request, course_id, discussion_id, thread_id):
             'threads': saxutils.escape(json.dumps(threads), escapedict),
             'category_map': category_map,
             'roles': saxutils.escape(json.dumps(utils.get_role_ids(course_id)), escapedict),
+            'thread_pages': query_params['num_pages'],
         }
 
         return render_to_response('discussion/single_thread.html', context)
diff --git a/lms/templates/discussion/single_thread.html b/lms/templates/discussion/single_thread.html
index 0cc1f28b24..9ec05b1534 100644
--- a/lms/templates/discussion/single_thread.html
+++ b/lms/templates/discussion/single_thread.html
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 
 <%include file="_new_post.html" />
 
-<section class="discussion container" id="discussion-container" data-roles="${roles}" data-course-id="${course_id}" data-user-info="${user_info}" data-threads="${threads}" data-content-info="${annotated_content_info}">
+<section class="discussion container" id="discussion-container" data-roles="${roles}" data-course-id="${course_id}" data-user-info="${user_info}" data-threads="${threads}" data-content-info="${annotated_content_info}" data-thread-pages="${thread_pages}">
   <div class="discussion-body">
     <div class="sidebar"></div>
     <div class="discussion-column"></div>