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Times tables advice

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Escarbonara · 13/01/2018 07:32

Can anyone recommend any good books, games (not apps) or anything else for a 7 year old to help learn Times Tables?

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user789653241 · 13/01/2018 08:06

www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

www.learnyourtables.co.uk/en/index2.htm

www.learnmoretables.co.uk/activity/index.htm

www.arcademics.com/

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DayKay · 13/01/2018 08:08

There are some good workbooks. I bought one for ds and then got them to practise on their own. It’s very repetitive but needs to be.
We also listened to timestables songs on YouTube every morning.

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Lowdoorinthewal1 · 13/01/2018 09:53

Plyt can be played using times tables only. There is also a times tables expansion pack for City of Zombies which my 7yo likes.

One of the best things we have is 'three cornered' flash cards, which really help to learn tables as division facts as well.

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bearstrikesback · 13/01/2018 09:56

Schofield and Sims do great times tables workbooks.

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Arkadia · 13/01/2018 16:02

Also you can print out the big maths beat that worksheet and do those.
Whatever the strategy the only important thing is that you practice 10 mins a day or so, EVERY DAY, Christmas and New year included ;)

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brilliotic · 13/01/2018 16:29

I second Plyt, we played it a lot, it's fun in that you play as a family and all family members are properly challenged! It goes beyond merely memorising times tables 'facts' (once you have these down pat) to applying them to quickly work out other multiplications e.g. 6x8x5. And children can learn other things as well, e.g. you can model how you deal with a (arithmetic) challenge, and how you deal with getting it wrong etc. You can be a learner alongside your child, rather than you being the one that knows everything (assuming you know your own times tables) and the child the one that needs to learn.

Usborne's 'See Inside Times Tables' is quite nice for starting out, it shows patterns and demonstrates what multiplication actually means, whilst feeling very non-scary.

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Worldsworstcook · 13/01/2018 16:49

Excellent game called multiflyer - my ds and Dd played it (it's like a space game) and DS did so well that in p6 he won an all Northern Ireland maths cup! Purely from this game!

www.brainormous.com/ppage_multiflyer.html

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namechangedtoday15 · 13/01/2018 17:21

Pack of cards. 2 players. You turn over the cards in turn, a bit like snap, and the player has the do the sum of the last card played plus the card they turn over.