Mercury

Objectives

I can recall all multiplication facts for all multiplication tables up to 12 x 12

I can recall all division facts for all multiplication tables up to 12 x 12

I can multiply whole numbers by 10, 100 and 1000

I can divide whole numbers by 10, 100 and 1000

Things you can do at home to help

As your child is now working on their NASA Passport objectives, they should INSTANTLY know ALL of their times tables. The danger with too much rote learning of times tables is that children can fail to see the use of times tables in real life. Try to take opportunities to get your child to use multiplication in problem solving, for example working out quantities for scaling up a recipe, or calculating the price of more than one item of shopping.

Continue to encourage them to keep practising so they don’t forget! Make it fun by turning times table practice into a competition or challenge for your child, by timing them and keeping a record of their scores. You could even join in yourself and set a challenge to learn a more difficult times table, such as the 13 times table and get your child to test you at the end of the week in exchange for testing them…

Links to games that will help

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/times-table-collection/z4vv6v4
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=bingotimesordivide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q39V2SASAV0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPaqhYFHNUI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq_u4ByagoQ