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Sharing ideas and best practices to promote effective instruction in elementary math Inspired by educators around the world and the work we do at HappyNumbers.com

Technology in Education: The Future Is Here

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Technology in Education: The Future Is Here

Technology in Education: The Future Is Here – Math Blog for Differentiation from Happy Numbers

Happy Numbers team· 02 Nov

Teaching Why (not just How): Column Addition and Subtraction

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Teaching Why (not just How): Column Addition and Subtraction

How to give your students a behind-the-scenes look at column addition and subtraction -- interactive lessons to help take the mystery out of exchanging

Happy Numbers team· 02 Nov

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Teacher’s Best Friend: Base-10 Blocks

Using base-10 blocks to represent equations is a great way to provide conceptual understanding of equations and demonstrate strategies for solving them...

Happy Numbers team· 02 Nov

So you have an iPad? What next? A guide for teachers

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So you have an iPad? What next? A guide for teachers

So you now you have an iPad, what can you do with it? To get you started, here's some of the useful apps and tools that would be useful to you as a teacher.

Happy Numbers team· 02 Nov

List Of Teaching Methodologies Primary School

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List Of Teaching Methodologies Primary School

List Of Teaching Methodologies Primary School – Math Blog for Differentiation from Happy Numbers

Happy Numbers team· 02 Nov

Individualized, Differentiated, and Personalized Learning

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Individualized, Differentiated, and Personalized Learning

The road to the future of education: driven by pedagogy, supported by technology.

Happy Numbers team· 02 Nov

How to Teach a Sense of Larger Numbers through Estimation

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How to Teach a Sense of Larger Numbers through Estimation

A Guessing Jar is one of my favorite activities for promoting number sense and an awareness of how large a number is. I love that it can be filled with anything small or large and right away we have a number activity that is unique every time.

Happy Numbers team· 02 Nov

Hitting Math Benchmarks in K-2 (Case Study)

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Hitting Math Benchmarks in K-2 (Case Study)

After mind-growing lessons that focus on conceptual understanding, can students succeed on such abstract tests that only measure procedural fluency? Will the tests cause trauma or anxiety in our youngest students (as it often does in teachers!)? At Slackwood Elementary School in New Jersey, math specialist George Regan set out to answer these questions with some research of his own.

Happy Numbers team· 02 Nov