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How to Learn your Times Tables
Arithmetic and maths can be hard work if you don't know your tables. It's like walking through thick treacle - you can hardly lift your feet.Follow these tips and you will be surprised at how easy it is to learn your tables:
- Little and often. Set yourself an achievable target such as 15 minutes a day, rather than 2 hours every Saturday morning.
- Small chunks. Do one table at a time. For example, do the 5 times table. Make sure you know this through before moving on.
- Use the clock. A random list of 100 tables questions (9 x 2, 3 x 3, 9 x 4 etc) should take around 2 minutes.
- Practice, practice, practice. You need to know your tables so well that the answers come to you automatically. And you have to know them 'backwards' - for example, when answering the question 'How many times does 6 go into 48?'
- Measure accuracy and speed. Note how many you are getting right and how long it's taking. You will see that you are improving. Here are a few of the many tools that you might find useful:
- Tables Tester and Trainer Computer based. FREE. Tracks your progress
and tell you whether you "know your tables".
- learnyourtables.co.uk Computer based. FREE. Very good for monitoring
your progress.
If you do a "Test" on a "Single" table, you will get 19 questions. Try getting these all correct with a "Time" of 8 or less.
For a "Mixed" test, you will get 40 questions. Try getting these all correct with a "Time" of 15 or less. - Times Table Grid from the BBC Computer based. FREE.
Very good for "backwards" questions such as "Q. What makes 30? A: 6x5"
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How to do Maths so your Children Can Too Book.£9.99.
Works through maths topics with a simple step-by-step approach,
explaining the new ways of teaching maths that confuse so many parents.
- learnyourtimestables.com
CD or MP3 download. £6.99. Times table songs. Each repeats round three times.
The music then repeats twice more without the answers.
This teaches you to provide the answer yourself.
- hoohasuper-duper.com
Hoo Ha! Box sets of memory cards. From about £9.
Uses four learning styles to aid recall and improve memory.
Each box set is grouped in a accordance with the national curriculum guidance on
how times tables are taught in primary schools.
- ko-box.com
Know Your Times Tables. Board game. £29.95.
Lay out single-digit number cards in the correct places as answers
to times tables questions written on strips in front of you.
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