Times Tables Rock Stars is an app and website that we use in school to quicken the recall of tables facts. In Y6, we love it!
We have been using this app on a regular basis and there has been clear progress in our recalling speed of our times tables.
But don’t just take my word for it – check out the evidence below! The following graph shows our average recall speed measured against Y6 expected standard.
A clearer image, if you need it, can be found here.
It’s great to see so many engaging with TTRS…
…but I’m sure we can improve our average daily time. Each game is short so you don’t need lots of time – ten minutes each day would be ideal!
A clearer image, if you need it, can be found here.
It’s also a great tool for me to see how we’re doing as a class (or individual pupils) and can therefore tailor our practice to fit! I can have a look at minutes played, points scored, strongest/weakest table facts etc.
The first picture below is a heatmap to show recall speed – the greener, the quicker! (Ignore the red one in the bottom left. That was a user error.) We can use this to see that, as a class, our slowest recalls are with 9 x 8, 8 x 4 and 8 x 6 / 6 x 8. Challenge your child to recall these now! 🙂
On the right is our average score for random tables out of 25. Each bar represents a pupil and the aim is to get everyone consistently at 22 or more out of 25. Currently, we have 13 pupils doing this – well done!
A clearer heatmap is here and average score out of 25 is here.
All of these graphs can be downloaded for each child so if you want to know exactly how your child’s getting on and how to improve, send me an email and I’d be more than happy so let you know their individual stats!