Multiple Intelligences meet their match with HappyMath’s multi-sensory approach to memorizing.
Individual learning styles are found to be an asset, then they are coupled with FUN!

Visual/spatial intelligence taps into the picture associations and vibrant color-coding.

Verbal intelligence tunes in to the stories; and turns on repeating the rhymes.

Musical intelligence comes alive moving and grooving with the rhythms and rhymes.

Logical/mathematical intelligence comprehends the principle of multiplication.

Then, once the facts have been memorized, your child has an internal math tool to use in problem solving throughout life.The following true story clearly shows the relationship of memorized multiplication facts to logical mathematical intelligence. It was shared with the developer of HappyMath in 1996 during one of the initial presentations of the HappyMath program to math educators.

"In elementary school when my daughter was in third, fourth, and fifth grades her public school teachers consistently told me that she was just not good with numbers. It was sad for me to see her math grades on her report cards for I knew differently. I could see her using logical mathematical intelligence everywhere – when shopping with me in the grocery store, when we played card games, when we baked cookies together

As a math educator myself I recognized her problem early on. It was simply that she could not remember the multiplication facts with the rote methods used in school. I practiced and practiced with her but to no avail.
By fifth grade she could remember most of the facts but not all. She was still struggling. It was then I began to make up rhymes to help her memorize the remaining multiplication facts.

In a short while, she had them! From that time on everything was different. She just seemed empowered! Math became her favorite subject! In junior high she was included in the advanced math program. This continued throughout high school."

At the time this story was told this woman’s daughter was a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University involved in a specially designed doctoral program for advanced mathematics. She said she wished she had had HappyMath years ago.