Year 2 times table question

[southernbelle77]

What times tables should an average ability year 2 child know by the end if the year? Just wondering how DC is doing.

yy in the sixties we inhaled them with the playdo fumes

Yes. In what is now reception, we had all the tts on roller blinds which our teacher would pull down once a day and we would chant them. This happened every single school day, and by the time we were in Y2 we knew them off by heart, right up to 12 x12. I know them still and could almost certainly pass mrz's tests with no problem. My mum learnt the same way and could still recite them when she was 84!

Maybe I was just very fast at mental arithmetic

Or maybe I inhaled too much playdough

I'm upset we never had playdough in my school in the sixties

Do you not believe we had it? we definietly had tt's in reception though

don't you remember that delicious smell.. I'm convinced it resulted in an addiction to smelljoy that has resulted in surreptitiously sniffing firelighters at my age

anyway - I was telling my child today how we (at our incerdibly comprehesive primary school) were doing pounds shillings and pence takeaways with 12 to the top one to the bottom - and realised it must have been when I was five-six just because of the age of decialisation

does this seem about the right age to you mrz z

We had no play dough! Wasn't invented in the first half of the sixties; we was all deprived.

it was around then I think

on a more serious note

I deplore the view that children shouldn't start learning tt's until they can understand multiplication

it delays the rote learning beyond the stage when they gaily and unthinkingly absorb, to the stage where they are bored by rote and you have to make it playful and fun and exciting and that

We had Times tables but definitely no play dough (but my school only had 1 teacher and 30 children aged 4-11)

We did have an open fire in the classroom though so may well have sniffed firelighters

I remember learning £ s d and lb oz and gills and pints and quarts and that 1760 yard in a mile and 10 chains in a furlong and 8 furlongs in a mile in the infants ... by rote

You are thinking of plasticine. Fab smell, but always ended up brown!

Nothing it too late to start at 7!

cripes yes pints and quarts, gallons and pints

we never did gallons and pints by the "eight" equivalent of decimal arithmetic though, only currency

no no definitely playdoh smell - heavenly - shame one can't link it really

am quite worried about the firelighters but then i don't drink

but yes it was always brown and very marvellous, brown "caterpillars"

Maybe some lovely teacher made it? It was definitely plasticine at my school in the very early seventies. I don't remember playdo coming out in the shops until much later.

playdoh did exist my sister had some, but it dried up. Then it was back to BROWN plasticine that wouldn't go through the playdoh machine.

Sorry that has nothing to do with times tables, which is probably a good thing. Tables are the most boring thing on the planet (after spellings). DD2 has know hers for ages, but even in Y5 they still get them. If I practice with her she is better than me

I remember having playdough as a child just not at school

Play doh came to England in 1964

Ds is yr 2 and knows his 2, 5 and 10 times tables. The other class in the yr knows their 3 and 6 tables as well. Ds's teacher hasn't bothered with those. His class have to do 60 questions in 5 mins. The other class is given 100. No difference in ability between the two classes but a big difference in teaching focus. The other class teacher likes maths and focuses on this to the detriment of other things.

Must have been too exotic and newfangled for my school!

we just didn't play

Playdoh was invented in the mid-50s in Cincinatti. It was exported to England in 1964. I was in Y2 then. It wouldn't have got to us for many more years. In fact, I never even saw playdog until one of my friend's little sister got it, but she was a good 8 years younger than us.

However, having seen playdog, I went on to see play doh and there was no stopping me after that. I saw Mr Men and recently, I saw something called a pc.

Playdog sounds so much more fun, though!

my year 2 class know 2s, 5s and 10s FWIW. No more than that.