Teaching timestables to struggling DD

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Can anyone share their methods of teaching TT please?

DD has a global delay and hasn't even learnt her 2 x tables as she nears the end of Y2. Would appreciate ways to help over the holidays please?

Google times table songs. Find ones she likes and can dance around to.

Use coloured blocks or bricks and plastic numbers or write them in big colourful markers so that she understands the process ( or begins to)

Cuisinaire rods.

Other ideas:

Big physical objects. Sofa cushions etc. Stuff that you have to work to pile and move - helps get a sense of number.

Does she understand number and place value properly? Abacus?

Numberblocks is a work of genius, but other than that would avoid screens.

One last thing - take a look at Nrich.

Thank you. No she doesn't understand place value. She can just about count to 20. She can do basic addition but usually with her fingers. She doesn't recognise patterns at all.

Ok. So you need to go back to basics. There's no point learning to parrot times tables without number sense. Happens to a lot of kids and really does not help.

Take a look here: https://nrich.maths.org/13371

Times Fables: Learn your times tables in as little as a week [3rd Edition] https://amzn.eu/d/bfbfxE5

This book helped my daughter learn all of her times tables up to 12 x 12 very quickly!