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Teacher’s Best Friend: Base-10 Blocks

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
Properties of Multiplication

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

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
Do You Dread Teaching Regrouping and Exchanging? Let Us Help

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