DD is in year 3. We practise tables daily using a combination of 'Mathletics' which school tells us to do; computer games; completing worksheets and saying tables aloud in and out of order (not all on a given day though!). At school the children do a weekly test in 'Big Maths' consisting of 24 tables questions in a different order each week. The actual questions are almost identical week to week and they get 1 minute to answer as many as possible. I think DD gets about 8 questions right in the time...but this score isn't improving. I'm wondering what to do next. Maybe picking one sum eg 7 x 8 and just focusing on that for a week would be better, together with consolidating one table that she knows quite well eg. 3x.
An unexpected result of all this is her younger silbling (year 1) seems to be picking it all up no problem, just by watching and listening - she remembers all the tricks and shortcuts which her older sister forgets. I sympathise with my eldest and unfortunately it has the potential to turn into a Horrid Henry/Perfect Peter situation. I guess we just keep on with the practise...but has anyone else experienced this - lots of practise but little to show for it? I think the time limit on the weekly test may be a major obstacle which could be masking underlying progress - how demoralising is that???
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Times tables - lots of practise but little apparent progress...
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rabbitrabbit01 · 04/03/2014 10:03
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