Maths help

[Iammetoday]

Looking for how to help dd 9 with maths,confidence is low, ability low, times tables are a worry. Teacher meeting next week.
But any one similar problem? Thinking of ways to help over summer- games? Confidence? Tines table practice?

Try plus one or power of two depending on her ability. That series also has a times table option but a great free alternative is the timestables . Com website. Lots of repetition. When you say low, how low? 1-2 years behind or 4?

For times tables DD will just need to learn each one parrot fashion staring with 1,2,5 and 10

You can try using Lego pieces to help her visualise it.

Or she could draw out pairs of things for the 2 times table.

Draw groups of say 5 flowers to help with 5 times tables placing them side by side from 1-10

So get a piece of A4 paper and cut it into 10 pieces

On each piece she draws 3 things and then places them together

Is she comfortable with the idea of multiplication as repeated addition? Eg if asked to do 5x3 on a number line, can she do +3 5 times and end up at 15?

If that is secure, then work out which tables she knows. 10s are easy, 5s pretty easy once confident with the pattern.
If doubling is secure, then 2, 4 and 8 are straightforward.
Once 3 is secure, 6 is just double that.
9 there is a trick - each time the 10s number goes up one and units comes down one - eg 18 to 27 (1 to 2, 8 to 7)
Also, important to know that all of them are reversible eg 3 x 5 = 5 x 3. Once happy with this, the only 7 that needs learning is 7 x 7.

Then repetition to speed up recall - lots of games. My kids used to enjoy TT Rockstars. But we also used a couple of 10 sided dice to produce random tables questions.

Times tables we just repeat every day. We do at least 2 tables a day on the way to school, chanting them out and then we might do rapid fire questions.

I have a friend who fits them to songs so the DC just have to remember which song it is and they come quite naturally

Thank you all. Some of the issue is recall. She's previously learnt 6 & 7s but has now forgotten then. She knows 2,5,10,3, 9,11. Need more practice on 8s, 12s and the 6& 7s again. I'm not convinced she's secure on the doubling & addition that links to multiplication- so might go over those..... dobt want the summer to be about maths but she's heading for year 5 in September and want her a bit more confident and working within expected levels....

You don't need a summer of maths, she just needs to do 10mins a day of recall. Try to get a times tables board game, those can be fun. CGP does daily workout books. You could get the Y4 one to keep Y4 knowledge fresh as it seems to be recall that's the problem. Alternatively get the Y5 autumn term one as that tends to refresh Y4 knowledge. However flick through it, the idea is they do it alone to increase their confidence.

Try the times table songs by numberrock on youtube and use times table rockstars app to help them stick in her memory.