If the class is struggling, review the process for learning the multiplication table, then have them complete this
second times table test to see what they have learned from your review.
I have used it for a variety of reasons: To to motivate children to complete work,
i.e. times table test.
Before you finish your week
of times table tests, do a quick review with students of some of the problems they might encounter.
Don't be surprised if you find — after reviewing the results of the
second times table test — that students are still struggling.
One of my Thinkster students was lamenting that in the weekly timed
times tables tests at school he always finishes in 3rd place, slightly behind the Kumon kids.
With times tables tests being introduced in England for all Year 6 students from 2018, many teachers are turning their thoughts to times tables and how to teach them creatively and effectively.
Plans for
new times tables tests were announced by the former education secretary Nicky Morgan in January 2016.
However, the government's own consultation response document, published last September, said that just two fifths of respondents
supported times table tests at the end of year 4.
Controversial tests taken by England's seven - year - olds will be scrapped by 2023, but nine - year - olds will have to
sit times table tests under new plans.
The announcement by the education secretary today comes after schools minister Nick Gibb revealed plans for on -
screen times tables tests in an exclusive interview with Schools Week last October.
With
the times tables tests coming to primary schools by 2019, this might be the opportune time to start thinking about how to get kids optimally engaged for what is an essential but daunting learning curve for under 11s.
The times table tests are being implemented because learning the times tables is a crucialstepping stone required for children to undertake long multiplication and long division.
The main thrust of the interview was about plans to ensure all pupils take
a times table test at the end of primary schools - and an indication, by nodding when it was suggested, that the Conservatives would pledge to protect the schools budget - from age five to 16 - if the party wins the next election.
The government is inviting schools that want to know more about
the times tables test to contact the Standards and Testing Agency.
On Sunday, head teachers» leaders had reacted angrily to suggestions that primary schools could be failed or heads replaced if any pupils failed to pass
a times table test.
«I do get cross when I see «100 per cent of children must pass
the times tables test» and things like that, because I think «hang on a minute.
But
times table tests - initially floated last year for pupils aged 11 - would be sat two years earlier in year four, from 2019/20 to help children's «fluency in mathematics».
Then have students complete
the times table test that you can access by clicking the link in this slide.