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Pupils To Sit Times Tables Check From 2019
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Am I to understand, from this astonishing news, that children are NOT tested on their times tables now ?
Am I to understand, from this astonishing news, that children are NOT tested on their times tables now ?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Grandson (7) is involved with this and I am quite exercised. He is an intelligent boy (emotionally a bit 'off the wall' but I can vouch for intelligence). He has yet again (3rd time) failed to pass his 2x table test. He knows it perfectly well, but they tie it up with division and there is a 25 question test on both. Each time he has got a different question wrong. Surely (as in my day) knowing your times table should be enough and division follows? (I sense a mathematician hovering here). Grandson is now dispirited and demoralised and ready to give up on maths.. I'm furious.
His mum, aunt and me were all well on to our complete times tables by his age (I think I had done them all except for the 7x - still a problem for me) at the same age. This is overkill i.m.o. Let them learn tables first - then the rest follows.
His mum, aunt and me were all well on to our complete times tables by his age (I think I had done them all except for the 7x - still a problem for me) at the same age. This is overkill i.m.o. Let them learn tables first - then the rest follows.
Too many children even at secondary school do have mental block with division and just don't seem to realise that it is just the inverse of multiplication. If your daughter knows her 2 times tables should with practice be able to remember all the corresponding division fac understand why the school does this to test the ability to use the information that has been learnt.
Kid you all not, by the age of nine I knew my times tables up to 23 and was pushed by my form teacher Miss Taylor to add 11,12, 13 etc to them all just for fun. Not kidding and although I couldn't recite them now, I can still do mental arithmetic that sometimes shocks the youngsters who actually think it is witchcraft or a con from me.
The difficulty I have with this story is, when I started Junior School at 5 yrs old in 1956 I knew all my Tables, the Alphabet and could put in a reasonable performance on the PIano (No Elton John though) thanks to input from my Mother. I assumed everyone did this and was held back/bored stupid until I got to Grammar School in 1962.
This over emphasis on testing and SATs, etc can be so demoralising for little people. Having twins who are v different I can see how it affects different sorts of kids. Thing 1 is not stupid by a long way (she's been tested), but academic stuff does not float her boat. She has extra maths work to do and tables practice at lunchtime - it makes her miserable & frustrated. Thing 2 is v academic and it's water off a duck's back to him. They're 8, they should be enjoying school, not slogging through it and being made to feel miserable and probably picked on.
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