Helping your child meet their
termly maths target
Autumn
Times tables – recalling
multiplication and
division facts
A booklet for parents
Swaffield
PRIMARY SCHOOL
Times tables Bingo
Write six multiples of one of your child's target times table in a bingo grid. Shuffle a set of
cards marked 1 to 10 and place them in a pile face down. Turn over the top card and
multiply it by your target number. For example, you are working on the multiples of 5
(target number) and you turn over a card showing 6. 5 multiplied by 6 = 30, so if you
have 30 on your board you can cross it out. The winner is the person who crosses out all
their numbers first!
Rap or song
Make up a rap or a song to help your child remember a times table, or specific fact,
which they struggling to remember.
Beat the calculator
In pairs, one with a calculator, one without, each works out the answer to a calculation
aiming for the one without the calculator to say the answer first!
Multiplication Grid
Complete as much of a multiplication grid as you can, focusing on those that are your
child’s target. Once your child can do them all, they can start timing themselves, keeping
a record of their best time. Completed multiplication on final page of this booklet.
Poster
Create a poster of their target times table and use it to practise with.
Snap Cards
Make a set of cards, some with multiplication and/or division questions on, and others
with the answers. Use the cards to play snap or pairs!
What’s the question?
The answer is 24, ‘What’s the multiplication question?’ 12 x 2, 2 x 12, 4 x 6, 6 x 4, 8 x 3
or 3 x 8. My answer is 8, ‘What’s the division question?’ 16 ÷ 2, 80 ÷10, 64 ÷ 8. Make it
harder by children only being able to answer using facts on their target times tables.
Turn the tables
You need a pack of cards with picture cards removed. Choose one of your child’s target
times tables such as the 7 times table. Share them out between the two players.
Together turn over the top card from each players’s piles. Put them together to make a
double digit number. Is the number in your chosen table? If so, the first person to call out
the corresponding calculation wins the pile of cards. Whoever
collects all the cards is the winner. Can be played for
multiplication and/or division. One of many games
you can play with cards.
Depending on your child’s year group, they
will be familiar with the 2,3, 4, 5 and 10
times tables. Some children will be learning
the 6, 7 and 8 times tables. Once you know
the first few tables you actually know more
than you think. The order does not matter,
for example, if you know ‘five eights’ you
also know ‘eight fives’. This only leaves 6
difficult ones to learn. You can help your
child memorise these one at a time.
2 x Just double
REMEMBER!
3 x Double then add another. For 4 x 3, do 4 x 2 = 8, then + 4 = 12
4 x Double and then double again
5 x Half of x 10
6 x Times 5 and then adjust. For 6 x 6, do 5 x 6 = 30, then + 6 = 36
7 x Turn it around. For 4 x 7, do 7 x 4
8 x Double, double and then double again!
9 x Times 10 and then adjust. For 6 x 9, do 6 x 10 = 60, then – 9 = 51
THE FUN FINGER TRICK!
If you know a
multiplication fact, for
example,
7 x 5 = 35, not only do
you know
5 x 7 = 35, but you
also know some
division facts:
35 ÷ 5 = 7 and
35 ÷ 7 = 5
11 x Times 10 and then adjust. For 11 x 6, do 10 x 6 = 60, then + 6 = 66
12 x Add x10 and x 2 together. For 12 x 4, do 10 x4 = 40, 2 x 4 = 8, then 40 + 8 = 48
9 x FUN FINGER TRICK
1.
Spread your fingers out in front of you.
2.
For 9 x 7 bend your seventh finger down.
(9 X 5 would be the fifth finger etc.)
3.
You have 6 fingers (the tens) to the left
of the bent finger and 3 to the right (the units)
4.
The answer is 63. This works for the 9 times
tables up to 10.
Out and about
There are always opportunities to relate maths to
real life. For example, if our fish ‘n’ chips costs £6
each, how much is it for the whole family.
REMEMBER!
Multiplication is repeated addition
Division is repeated subtraction
Visit the school website for a list of useful websites to help your
child meet their targets and other ways you can help your child in maths.
www.swaffield.wandsworth.sch.uk
Then go to the curriculum page or parent pages
Multiplication grid
The above and blank multiplication grids can
be found on our school website.
We would appreciate any comments about
this booklet. What have you and your child
found helpful? What else would you have
liked included?