Grade 1

Best practices and ideas for Grade 1

Introducing standard units of length measurement at 2nd grade: centimeters and inches

Although students are familiar with the idea that all objects have length, they don't automatically get the concept of...

Happy Numbers team· 28 Feb

Best Practices

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

Going from Concrete to Visual Representation: Combinations to 10

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Going from Concrete to Visual Representation: Combinations to 10

Every year when I start things rolling in my third grade classroom, I am amazed at the levels of abilities of my students. There are always a handful of students who, for whatever reason, are lacking number sense in big ways. This handful of students typically struggles with making combinations to 10. So I do what any teacher would do best, I re-teach, and re-teach, and re-teach...

Happy Numbers team· 01 Nov