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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

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Kindergarten

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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

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Grade 1

Solving Word Problems in Mathematics

Solving Word Problems in Mathematics – Math Blog for Differentiation from Happy Numbers

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

Grade 4

Grade 3

Curriculum Overview

Properties of Multiplication

Explore the overview of Happy Numbers’ pedagogy relating to multiplication properties. See introductory tasks and activities developing procedural fluency.

Happy Numbers team · 02 Nov

Place Value: Building a Strong Foundation

Grade 1

Curriculum Overview

Place Value: Building a Strong Foundation

Early understanding of place value is an important milestone for your students as they advance in numeration and operations. Here are some activities to help your students to move toward this milestone as well as links to exercises that build prior knowledge...

Happy Numbers team · 02 Nov

The Pan Balance: Hands-On Approach to Equations

Kindergarten

Curriculum Overview

Grade 2

Grade 1

The Pan Balance: Hands-On Approach to Equations

The best K-1 math tool you’re probably overlooking… the pan balance inspires creative problem solving and deep understanding of equations.

Happy Numbers team · 02 Nov

Do You Dread Teaching Regrouping and Exchanging? Let Us Help

Curriculum Overview

Grade 2

Do You Dread Teaching Regrouping and Exchanging? Let Us Help

Regrouping and exchanging in two-digit addition and subtraction is one of those math procedures that is often used without understanding the underlying concepts. Here, we would like to share with you some ideas we use to approach this challenging topic...

Happy Numbers team · 02 Nov