10yr old dd and Maths- worried

[HelenBurns1994]

Hi, please be gentle. Im worried about my 10 Yr old. I want to do SATS practice with her and she is getting 4/50. She panics, she doesnt do well in timed conditions. Her school is not bothered. Im not well educated so I really want the best for her and her future life chances. I don't want her to be in bottom set in Secondary school. I work full time and then I go through the Maths with her. She makes such silly mistakes and when I point them out she either cries or says "Oh yes.." I'm at my wits end. I bought Bond online but its not timed so she will sit for ages doing it. Can anyone give me some constructive advice.

If you feel like this is a trivial issue, that's your perogative but Im only interested in how I can help my little girl without crushing her confidence. I need to fill in the gaps at KS2 so she is at an advantage when she goes to secondary school.

Thank you so much in advance.
Worried Mum

Try Times Tables Rock Stars. Not free but not expensive at all and will adapt to her level. Making it fun is half the battle and children love this.
I would also be asking about her targets and differentiation at school though too.

I'd agree with this.

DD1 was same a young age - she finally been disagonsed as dsylexic as we always though she was. Place value was shaky with her when that got rocky soild it massivley helped reduce transposing and many other silly mistakes.

With other two it was short term memeory issues -so lots of maths practise more than they got in school - those two have both gone on not just to do maths A-level but FM as well despite their first primary school flagging up issues - with DS serious ones - with maths.

Honestly , I would start with the basics . Make sure she knows her tables (by heart)
I used to do three minute timed test with my dcs I would give them thirty questions and they would do as many as they could in three minutes. I then introduced division .
Also, she probably lacks confidence which could prove to be an obstacle
Have a look at online programmes

I wouldn't just rote learn times tables unless she's really clear what they mean e.g. repeated addition, lots of, groups of. Can she draw arrays or arrange objects to demonstrate understanding of times tables?