Times Tables - best app/websites?

[tassisssss]

Hi all, i'm keen to get my guys practising their tables more.

Anyone got any good apps or websites that you use?

Thanks

[mamabear1982]

We really liked Bubble Tables on the iPad. My son and daughter both really enjoyed playing it and now have all their timetables down. But they still like playing it from time to time. In fact I quite enjoy it myself!

[Rosesareyellow]

@Ferguson school will obviously cover all this, of course children still need to learn to recall table facts.

[Rosesareyellow]

Google times table memory game, my child really struggled with xtables but has become obsessed and very competitive playing this with me.

[Justanothamama]

Table fables was recommended to me through a friend and it’s been amazing. My daughter was not memorizing from school or me. It was just an avalanche of numbers for her that she couldn’t keep up with. Table fables gives each number character and each equation a story. She was able to memorize them so quickly that way. She enjoys the website and the learning cartoons. She’s just won back her 10 pounds for completing her times table challenge. But I will be continuing my subscription because it’s affordable and useful for revision. They’re also adding a helping kids to tell the time feature which I’m very excited for. Thumbs up from me.

[care4kids]

Tables Fables is absolutely brilliant! There are cartoons to go with every times table question and they send your child money as an incentive for them to practice. My 7 year old daughter has absolutely loved it and now knows 75% of her times tables in as little as a month! Highly recommend.

[Raspberry123]

Times tables rockstar

[Starrystars]

Table Fables has worked really well for our daughter. After using it for about 3 weeks, her recall has improved dramatically, and most importantly her confidence is up and stress levels down. She also uses the site without me having to nag her. The initial challenge with money up for grabs instilled the habit of logging on regularly, and so hopefully she'll keep going. I was initially skeptical about the memory technique employed, as the stories seemed a bit complicated, but it has definitely worked for her - she says in her test if she's stuck, thinking back to the story has brought the answer to mind. I really liked that using Table Fables was a relaxed experience, without undue focus on speed. This had really put us off using other times table practice sites as it just increased stress levels.

[saraha321]

Highly recommend Tables Fables. We did the free trial then ended up signing up as my daughter loved it! She loved the individual characters. It’s very child friendly. Good luck

[4Marketing]

Table Fables has been a lot of fun and I was amazed how committed my daughter became, always reminding me that she had to do her daily practice, a first for us! It is on a lap top, win! and the bonus of a prize at the end was the clinch! Genius Table Fables thank you!

[kiloh]

I cannot recommend table fables highly enough both our daughters have dyslexia and trouble retaining times tables has been an enduring feature of this, every method we tried to try help them learn failed until this, the speed at my youngest suddenly grasped and retained her times tables was incredible, maths is now so much easier and she can rattle of divisions off just as easily, the confidence that she has gained is remarkable and I’m constantly recommending it to my friends and to their teachers,

[3Leaf]

We heard about Table Fables from my daughter's new teacher, who thought the animations would appeal to her love of stories, and she was right. After doing the original 17 day challenge she was very keen to do the consecutive day challenge to get her Nimbl card. Table Fables really engaged her and helped her confidence in her times tables over the space of only a few weeks.

[portobellogirl]

We did the free trial of Table Fables a few months ago, but what really got my 8YO’s attention (I’m afraid to say) was the lure of £110 if he did the 17-Day Challenge. We stumbled on this offer mid-August, the point in the holidays when all interest in homework had evaporated, and he then did his tables every day, even on his birthday! I got a nice holiday from the nagging.
The fables really stick. Three weeks on, I’ve just asked him: “If I say 9 x 8, what do you see in your mind?” And he’s replied:
“The 9 is a giraffe, and the 8 is snowman. So the 8 is used to doing ski jumps, and the 9 is a giraffe from Africa so it’s not. The snowman goes first on the ski jump, and it goes 7 metres, and the giraffe goes only 2 metres. The 7 and the 2 make 72.”
I would recommend Table Fables to anyone whose child is struggling to learn their times tables and who is finding rational explanations (eg, you know 10 x 8 is 80, so 9 x 8 must be 80 minus 8, mustn’t it?!) aren’t sinking in.
He was the second child to complete the 17-Day Challenge and win £110 (£10 from Table Fables and £100 from Nimbl). He is thrilled to have a Nimbl account with a debit card. He loves flashing the plastic, but is equally so pleased with his whopping bank balance that he’s hardly spending it very carefully. Thanks to Table Fables and Nimbl for such a generous prize.

[Blogger]

Table fables genuinely worked wonders for my daughter who turned nine-years-old in July. Another mother recommended it, and I was a little weary of introducing her to the iPad too soon. But, it has a been a great find - and suited her naturally competitive temperament to a tee. Instant answers, chances to go back and correct, rewards! She was in heaven and I genuinely had my work cut out to get her to stop after 15 minutes each day. Within a month, she had mastered the multiplication and division tables completely. She picked it all up very quickly. I can whole-heartedly recommend it. We have one very confident maths geek on our hands now.

[Gerryfoc]

Really recommend Table Fables - my daughter loves it and does it all on her own!!

[nudgeyone1]

I would recommend Table Fables online. It is wonderful approach as an alternative way to remember your times tables. The cartoons are addictive and lead to effortless learning as they just get remembered. Great approach that more people should know about

[Skylark1993]

This is a great app where low times are used as incentive to keep practicing

itunes.apple.com/us/app/timed-tables-multiplication/id1433695076?ls=1&mt=8

[jubbablub]

Agree with jamdonut. Massive progress in my kids with times table rockstars.

[jamdonut]

ttrockstars.com/login

[jamdonut]

TT Rockstars is what we use at school...timed tests, and a rock music theme ( you can do the tests to music!) play against others, join a leaderboard etc!

[jacobibatoli]

cut out a load of cards, 12 colours, 1 for each table
chop each coloured card up into 12 playing card sizes ..ish
write on each eg
3x7 on one side and the answer on the other
so you can test dc on each set of tables
in order or in a random order
and then when the big day comes juggle the whole lot up
nice and homemadish and it works

worked for mine and have now passed on the cards

I don't think the grids that kids are sent home from school with work and invariably they are in order so all they do is go 2,4,6,8,10.... down a column

I think learning by rote is the best way

[tassisssss]

Thanks all!