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More guides for parents of kids ages 5–10: how to teach multiplication, what a 5-year-old should know, hands-on counting and number sense games, and kid-friendly math history.

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How to teach multiplication
Teaching & Learning • 11 min read

How to Teach Multiplication: The Sequence That Sticks

Start with equal groups and repeated addition, build fact fluency, then multi-digit.

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What math should a 5-year-old know
Teaching & Learning • 8 min read

What Math Should a 5-Year-Old Know?

The kindergarten math skills behind counting, shapes and first addition, and how to practise them at home.

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Math activities for preschoolers
Activities & Games • 10 min read

Math Activities for Preschoolers: 24 Hands-On Ideas

24 hands-on math activities for preschoolers, grouped by skill, no worksheets required.

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Counting activities for preschoolers
Activities & Games • 12 min read

Counting Activities for Preschoolers: Hands-On Ways to Build Number Sense

A dozen hands-on counting games you can run today with things already in your kitchen drawer.

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Number sense activities
Activities & Games • 13 min read

Number Sense Activities for Young Kids: A Parent's Field Guide

Ten games that build a real feel for numbers, using a deck of cards, some blocks and a jar.

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Who invented math
Math Facts & History • 22 min read

Who Invented Math? A Kid-Friendly History

Nobody, and everybody. Where numbers came from, tally bones to zero to algebra.

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Who invented zero
Math Facts & History • 16 min read

Who Invented Zero? Kid-Friendly History

Babylonian wedges, a Maya shell, and Brahmagupta's rules in 628 CE. How nothing became a number.

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Who invented times tables
Math Facts & History • 12 min read

Who Invented Times Tables? A Kid-Friendly History

Clay tablets, bamboo strips and the Table of Pythagoras — plus why the grid stops at 12.

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