Mathletics or Mathsfactor?

[Etah]

That is it.

Will have to pay some kind of tutoring, is going to be online.
Which one??

My daughter (7) thought she knew her 2, 5 and 10 times table...

Turns out she knows the answers in a sequence, e.g. 2-4-6-8-10 / 5-10-15-20-25-30/ 10-20-30-40 etc

This is by her not even saying first, the multiplication she was doing. Just saying the answers out loud.

Somehow the school apparently think this is acceptable?
I am determined to help her with Maths during the holidays, obviously we will have fun too.

Which online tutoring is best overall?

Squeebles is best for times tables and cheap. Mathletics has been really good for other types of maths.

DD loves Squeebles and we use workbooks. I think pen and paper is good to see if she actually gets the basics properly and then move to the computer.

DD also loves ICT games, a free website and BBC Bitesize KS1.

Squeebles was well received.
I will use workbooks too during summer break and online games after school and before if there is time.
I just think all the repetition helps Dd memorise because she just can't grasp the concept of multiplication or repetitive addition, I am tearing my hair up.
Signed up for free trial with Mathatletics but didn't have time to try.
Quite like Mathsfactor when had a trial tough.

I haven't used mathletics so hopefully someone will be along to sing its praises - because parents have praised it here on MN.

We've used mathsfactor for our girls.

DD1 was seriously struggling - she was NC L1 at end of Y2 on KS1 SATs - and she could barely add and could not handle subtraction.

We had been asking the school for help but weren't getting any so turned to mathsfactor out of desperation.

For us it has been a huge success. DD1 quite simply didn't get the mechanics of numerical calculations and really did need someone to slowly, patiently explain how to do things. Carol Vorderman presents a little video at the start of each lesson and is hugely enthusiastic. You then tend to have a little warm-up and then quite a few practice questions (around 30 - 50).

It will test your child and start from where they're at - but if you feel good, old fashioned building blocks and working through maths concepts step by step would help - then I would highly recommend this programme.

What I will say is that mathletics/ maths whizz/ komodo maths/ mathsfactor all have information on their websites to describe what they do and certainly Mathsfactor does offer free trials. (I suspect the others do as well).

One site that is really sueful is Woodland Junior School Maths Zone: resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/ - this is entirely free and there are links to all sorts of games to help - just select the area of curriculum you think you may need more practice & follow the links (it takes a bit of research to work out which games are best - but it's time well spent).

HTH

Maths whizz is also quite good. It seems more directed than mathletics which we have just used at school.
We used maths whizz for a year outside school for DS1 which really helped increase his confidence.

Ds2 has had mathletics for a year via school and whilst it is good it doesn't seem as good as mathletics for giving you a programme to follow.

Maths whizz assesses your level in all areas and works to bring them all up, however with mathletics you are able to concentrate on one area of your choice.

I think maths whizz has a month free trial too.

Mathetletics is 10 days trial only...

DD's school uses MyMaths..it is free from the school but she did not like it very much...
I guess I just need to do lots of trials until we find the one which will help her best.
She has very poor short term memory.

Thanks for all the help.

Have you tried sumdog?

We use Mathletics at our school (l am a year 5 teacher) and would recommend it for questions and mini tests about the different areas of maths. There are also challenge tasks which are useful. We also use Maths Whizz but l find this a bit repetitive and prefer Mathletics!

Etah:

My Maths is very dry - effectively power point slides with very little animation/ interactivity. So not very popular with kids. However the games are great!

You should have an idea what level your child was working at on My maths and can use that to search through games working to a similar level.

If multiplication is the issue I can also recommend multiplication dot com - again entirely free: www.multiplication.com - the games there are really helpful and build up speed.

I've personally found that practicing these skills makes a big difference to securely performing calculations, speed and recall.

Mathsfactor does have summer schools & a mutliplication school - so you don't have to go all out and sign up for the monthly subscription to arithmetic school. It's more a one-off payment (< £20) - so you can try it for the summer/ see if you like it and then decide to continue or not from there.

HTH

Great!! Thanks.

Just paid and started the mathsfactor summer school and Dd is doing well so far, great for her confidence, however, the videos are very jerky and slow and if the technical support don't come up with something to fix it, I will have to give up and claim my money back.
Yes she can still answer the question and play the games but she will need the lessons too. After all the games and questions I can find anywhere else but NOT Carol's lessons...

Let's wait and see.

BTW we are doing a LOT of squeebles time but times table is still very challenging for her. She can't just get it or remembering it..

Etah:

With mathsfactor it can be time of day - we've found mornings or after dinner are better - right after school the videos can lock up.

One trick we do is if it locks up - go back to the begininng - it will spool more from where it locked up. I tend to use this as a natural break and get a snack/ drink for DDs and then we kind of sit down near where we left off and watch the rest.

If you want to work on recall and speed with times tables (but she vaguely knows them just can't always remember) - do try Timez Attack. It will be stressful at first - really puts the pressure on - but keeping plugging away at it (as long as she likes the game) - I think because it reinforces multiplicaiton is multiple additions - and mixes the times tables you are doing up a bit - it really does help with recall & speed.

HTH

Do u have to pay per account? I have 2 DC at different levels and would like them both to use it.

Yes you do need x2 which annoyed me greatly with Maths Factor.I have 3 kids with just a year between them-3x accounts I don't think so.

They've shot themselves in the foot as I'm not getting it just for one so I haven't bothered the last few years.

Also the lack of accessibility for Ipad use,seriously and Puffin is crap,it freezes.In this day and age and for the price I think Mathsfactor are a tad greedy and slow on the uptake. Tbf my dd started to hate MF anyway as too repetitive and boring.

Squeebles and workbooks were best for tables.My dd hated the Carol Vorderman books but I thought they were good for repetitive skills like fractions etc.

if you dd is anything like me, she will need to phsycially see the things add up, so anything, peices of pasta, building blocks, really slowly look....

i am much better when got things in my hands and work it out.

we tried mathletics today as a trial.
It was good.
Daughter uses the numicon shapes to work the sums out.

www.education.gov.uk/cgi-bin/schools/performance/group.pl?qtype=NAT&superview=pri

Both my DC use maths whizz (free through school) & DD uses squeebles (especially the bingo one which she loves!)

we're doing the summer school with Maths Factor and I find their arithmetic really improves. It cover things like times tables, fractions, adding in columns and its all timed. Great video lessons explain how to do each topic, and fun games to practice on before the big test! Once you receive enough stars you get a camp badge, and then a certificate.

I've just been sent a code for a subscription for Arithmetic School for £10 off which is good here it is FR-TMF-462. Not tried the school myself but use the summer school instead.

What is squeebles bingo??? I can't find it.

It's called maths bingo, its fab!