Teach Times Tables in Just 10 Minutes a Day

Do you have a system for teaching times tables that ensures that every student in your class knows every times table fact by the end of the first term of the year?

Would you like to trial a classroom-tested system for teaching all the multiplication number facts in just 10 minutes a day – all the way to 12×12?Part I: 10 Minutes a Day: Times Tables Worksheets

Chances are, if you’re like most teachers you are just a bit confused about whether or not to spend valuable class time on teaching times tables. Calculators and computers are here to stay, so it’s hard to be sure that students really need times tables knowledge. Coupled with that, TEACHERS’ TIME IS BEING GOBBLED UP by ever-increasing demands that they spend more and more time on the latest initiative of the government or the School Board.
You have probably been around long enough to remember the days when times tables (or number facts) were taught by every teacher. I’m old enough to remember when teachers drilled students in times tables endlessly every single morning. But those days are long gone.

Are You Teaching Times Tables the Right Way?

On the one hand, the crowded curriculum of the modern teacher’s work leaves no room for luxuries, and reciting times tables every day will bore students stupid. On the other hand, there are increasing concerns in the media and among employers and governments that today’s students don’t learn essential facts well enough – and you know who gets the blame for that, every time: the CLASSROOM TEACHER. And I know you don’t like telling parents of your students that they aren’t so good at remembering these essential facts. Parents don’t understand the theories you learned at university, and usually they’re not that impressed by theories either; they just want their children to have the best start on life they can possibly have. HOW CAN YOU MAKE SURE THAT HAPPENS? Letter from Trish Price

So What IS this New System?

How can YOU teach your students their times tables in just 10 minutes a day? Here’s what I have learned: if you provide students with well thought-out, targeted worksheets, designed to be used daily in a specified sequence, students get it! They move from facts they know really well onto facts they have recently practiced in class, AND THEY GET IT! I time my students each day when they are doing the worksheets, and each day their time is recorded on their worksheets. The results speak for themselves: students can all achieve success and improve their time on their memorized times tables — 50%, 100% or even 150%! Top students race each other for the coveted title of DAILY TIMES TABLES CHAMPION. Others get a real buzz from improving on their previous time. There are fortnightly Check Up assessment tests for the teacher to record scores and time. The accompanying homework sheets encourage the children to practice at home, and help the parents to see how their children are “learning their tables.” It is a win-win-winall around, for you, your students, and their parents.

What’s in the book?

The ‘Ten Minutes a Day’ worksheet system is actually THREE teaching tools in one: #1: The system is built on a set of research-based, current best practice strategies for learning times tables, based on the idea that being able to visualize numbers and number facts, and knowing how to retrieve facts that you have forgotten matches children’s thinking abilities and their cognitive development. The first part of the eBook lists all the strategies and explains the thinking involved for each one. #2: The daily worksheets are next, arranged in order of the strategies, with four sheets per strategy to be used in a week. But these are not the normal sort of worksheets – you know, the ones with a boring page full of questions, all in black and white. The Ten Minutes a Day Worksheets each have a color ‘Teaching Information Box’ explaining the strategy that is relevant to that page of questions; there is an indicator showing where the strategy on that page fits in the overall sequence of strategies; and there are the questions – around 80 times tables questions to practice that specific skill, PLUS another 20 revision questions of previous times tables facts. BONUS FEATURE: as well as 9 sets of worksheets on the 9 strategies for learning times tables, we have included 4 revision worksheets including all strategies mixed up, plus 5 assessment checkup worksheets. #3: The third teaching tool really sets this eBook apart from other sets of endless worksheets. Weekly homework sheets to send home with your students, two per strategy (20 worksheets in all). Each one includes practice questions in the same style as the in-class worksheets, plus a Parents Information Box explaining how you are teaching times tables in your classroom. PARENTS LOVE THESE! I have had parents tell me I am a wonderful teacher because I teach their children times tables! ANSWER SHEETS: Of course, there is a clearly coded answer sheet for each in-class worksheet and each homework sheet – 64 in all.

Special Features

I recognize that there are lots of websites with math worksheets to download. You might be wondering “What’s special about these worksheets?” Well, I had a look at the others and I noticed this. Sure, there are sites with thousands of worksheets to download, but rarely do they follow a well thought out sequence. There is no help for teachers to teach times tables using a consistent strategy, based on proper research, and I’ve hardly ever seen follow-up homework sheets to send home, complete with advice for parents. And don’t forget the Check Up assessment sheets which allow you to know exactly how every child is coping. I decided that my worksheets, if they were going to be any help to other teachers, needed to include a lot more than just the worksheets. That’s why I’ve put in the following extras to help you.

1. Indicator Bar to show progress

Each classroom worksheet includes an ‘indicator bar’ at the top to show how that sheet fits in the overall sequence:

Times Tables Strategies Bar

2. Professional Advice for the teacher

At the bottom of each worksheet is a small box to show the teacher how the strategy works, and the basic theory behind it: Teacher information box

3. Advice to Parents

Homework sheets include information for parents, to help them to follow the same strategies you teach in class, when helping their children with their homework:

Parents information box4. Answer Sheets

Every worksheet has an associated answer sheet, labeled with the same title, listed in the Contents Page so you can always find it.

5. Classroom Teacher License

All worksheets are licensed for photocopying for use in classrooms (including home school). All we ask is that if you tell your teaching friends about the eBook, encourage them to come here and download a free trial copy for themselves; you may not make duplicate copies for others or try to resell them.

6. 30-Day 100% Money-Back Guarantee

We know that this isn’t the cheapest book of worksheets on the market, but we believe it is the best available to teach multiplication facts in an organised system. We think that if you download free worksheets, you do get what you paid for. But if you want a tested, proven, professionally designed system to teach number facts, it is going to have a cost. To make sure that you are happy with your purchase, if you find after your purchase that our product fails to live up to your expectations in any way, contact us for a full refund, no questions asked.

What’s in the book?

  • 3 pages of Teacher Strategies with instructions for teacher
  • 36 Daily Practice Worksheets in sets of 4 for each of the 10 strategies
  • 4 Revision Worksheets on all strategies
  • 4 Check Up Assessment Worksheets
  • 20 Homework Worksheets – including information for parents to explain the classroom approach
  • 64 Answer Sheets – one for each worksheet
  • Whole-sheet dividers to keep sections organized
  • Hints on how to use each set of sheets

N.B.: 12x version has extra pages, covering all 144 facts from 0×0 to 12×12; the 10x version covers the 100 facts from 0×0 to 10×10. That’s 145 pages in total, professionally designed, packaged in a PDF file for simple storage and printing! However, the main benefit to you, as a busy teacher, is not the number of pages included – after all, there are sites all over the internet which boast thousands of worksheets for download. The real benefit is the systematization of the process of teaching times tables: all the worksheets are provided so that all you have to do is follow the system for 10 minutes per day, and the system does the rest.

Part I: 10 Minutes a Day: Times Tables Worksheets

 

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FREE Part I eBook Contents:

  • Teacher Strategies with instructions for teachers for all facts to 12 x 12
  • 16 Daily Practice Worksheets – all 4 sheets for weeks 1-4
  • 8 Homework Worksheets for weeks 1-4 – including information for parents to explain the classroom approach
  • 24 Answer Sheets – one for each worksheet
  • Whole-sheet dividers to keep sections organized
  • Hints on how to use each set of sheets