Good app for times tables

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Can anyone recommend one? My daughter is trying to learn them at the moment. We go through them together but I'd like something else to support us.

She extremely weak in maths and way behind her peers, so something encouraging and easy to reinforce is what I am after not something challenging. Thanks.

DS liked the Dorling Kindersley one.
He did 10 minutes everyday.

We liked Math Zombies. It's free and there's addition/subtration etc. as well. Just a few moments here and there, but regularly, really helped.

www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

learnyourtables.co.uk/

Thanks. We will try them all. She is currently playing the dk one.

She is smiling!

Maths rockx is a good one

It sets each times tables to a pop song. I think you have to pay for each one separately.

Multiplication Monkey was great for ds

Thanks. I'll try them all. She really liked the do one but it seems to limit you to 10 mins. Songs should be good . She lives to sing but can't quite get the chanting of the times tables that I remember from school.

If she likes singing try the Percy Parker app

Squeebles worked for DD.

Thanks. It's good to have some back up, not just me asking her to do it with me all the time. Something a bit different. Thanks.

Do they not chant them in class anymore? She never seems to have actually learnt them in school. She is year 4.

Tbh we just learnt them by chanting,ds learnt them in a week just by repeating and repeating while bouncing on the trampoline. Any games we did just confused him, so we did it the old fashioned way.

I have been trying that with DD for about two years. She just forgets almost instantly. I am having the fourth meeting this year with her teacher tomorrow about it. I am not sure what she expects me to say that is new. I do help her! I feel like she has some kind of number dislexia. Nothing sticks of any sort of maths. Time for me to at least try a different approach at home .

Maybe look up 'dyscalcula' numbers dyslexia

Times Table clock, uses visual memory instead

Thanks. Lots to try and when she gets tired of one we can move on. Great.

I looked up dyscalcula. I'm nots ure it's that severe but almost!

Maybe going back to the 'old fashioned' kind of maths, using REAL things will help a bit:

Practical things are best for grasping number concepts - bricks, Lego, beads, counters, money, shapes, weights, measuring, cooking.

Do adding, taking away, multiplication (repeated addition), division (sharing), using REAL OBJECTS as just 'numbers' can be too abstract for some children.

Number Bonds of Ten forms the basis of much maths, so try to learn them. Using Lego or something similar, use a LOT of bricks (of just TWO colours, if you have enough) lay them out so the pattern can be seen of one colour INCREASING while the other colour DECREASES. Lay them down, or build up like steps.

So:
ten of one colour none of other
nine of one colour one of other
eight of one colour two of other
seven of one colour three of other
etc,
then of course, the sides are equal at 5 and 5; after which the colours 'swap over' as to increasing/decreasing.

To learn TABLES, do them in groups that have a relationship, thus:

x2, x4, x8

x3, x6, x12

5 and 10 are easy

7 and 9 are rather harder.

Starting with TWO times TABLE, I always say: "Imagine the class is lining up in pairs; each child will have a partner, if there is an EVEN number in the class. If one child is left without a partner, then the number is ODD, because an odd one is left out."

Use Lego bricks again, lay them out in a column of 2 wide to learn 2x table. Go half way down the column, and move half the bricks up, so that now the column is 4 bricks wide. That gives the start of 4x table.

Then do similar things with 3x and 6x.

With 5x, try and count in 'fives', and notice the relationship with 'ten' - they will alternate, ending in 5 then 10.

It is important to try and UNDERSTAND the relationships between numbers, and not just learn them 'by rote'.

An inexpensive solar powered calculator (no battery to run out!) can help learn tables by 'repeated addition'. So: enter 2+2 and press = to give 4. KEEP PRESSING = and it should add on 2 each time, giving 2 times table.

There are good web sites, which can be fun to use :

www.ictgames.com/

www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/page/default.asp?title=Woodlands%20Junior%20School&pid=1

Ferguson,

Thank-you for taking the time and trouble to write that for me. It's extremely kind of you. I certainly will try it. We need another approach rather than rote. She can remember some bits but her hold on the tables is so fragile. She has no flexibility with them so for example knows that six fives are thirty five but just gets lost trying to turn the sum around. She even finds it hard to say a whole table - she gets completely lost as to which 'times' she is on.

I need to buy some more Lego! We have just emigrated and don't have much stuff with us.

hit the button worked for us

Another vote for Squeebles here - I have yet to teach a child who did not love it.

Thanks. I shall use them all I am sure!

If she is really struggling, have you tried posters? Hang it up everywhere where she regularly look at. Next to her bed, staircase, back of the toilet door, on the fridge, etc, etc. Every time she looks at it, go over whatever table she fancies.

Just place marking for later...

Also, this is not an APP, but very good tutorials + practice. Free site.

khanacademy

irvineoneohone There is actually a Khan Academy app.

Mathmateer is also a good one.