TO make my 9 year old do times tables and maths at the weekend

[plum100]

Sorry if this has been done before - Im really doubting my self here! So parents Eve this week - dd is behind in maths reading and writing. School have just subscribed to a times tables app that I’ve put on her tablet. I Think she should do this each day. I have pay a subscription to an online maths programme.
The issue is she kicks up each time I ask her to do it. It’s a massive battle. And with the maths programme she cries and says she can’t do it.
The thing is she will happily play on her tablet for hours a day playing stupid games like roblix and toca city. My argument is if she can play for hours on those games she can bloody well do 30mins of maths a day - with an hour at the weekend on this subscription. I want to take her tablet away and when she can completed said maths time she is then free to play her games. DH says I am putting too much pressure on her and I’m unreasonable- am I really? She’s behind at school. She needs to inprove. Staring at roblix is hardly going to help is it.

Please tell me am I being a tyrant?

[marathonwomanintraining]

Did they say how long for? My DD uses an app as part of her homework. The school let her know how many sessions are expected over a week. It is nowhere near 30mins a day.

[MereDintofPandiculation]

the art of rote memorization of the math tables Since when has rote memorisation been an art?

Why does one need to know times tables? I supposed it helps in doing other calculations quickly, but is there any need for 11 and 12 times?

I'd rather see someone comfortable enough with numbers to understand, for example, why, when a number is divisible by 3, its digits sum to a number which is also divisible by 3. If we focus too much on rote learning at the expense of understanding and building confidence, we end up with adults incapable of assessing risks and probabilities or understanding how much credence to give to the latest "peanut butter causes cancer" type headline.

[junebirthdaygirl]

I agree with Mere. How can they take her out for intervention for rote learning of tables? Surely they are more focused that she grasps maths and have lots of hands on approaches for this. In my intervention time they spend final 5 mins on rote learning tables but more to speed them up in their usual Maths. My dh is medically qualified and still doesn't automatically know his tables. He is dyslexic and that makes rote learning quite difficult.