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What is Soundcheck?

Playing Soundcheck helps students to build up their automaticity whilst balancing speed with strong accuracy.

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Written by Helen Newies
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Soundcheck is one of the five single-player games. It helps students to build up their automaticity whilst balancing speed with strong accuracy. For you as a teacher, it provides an easy way to assess progress over time for your students.


Game Format:

All Soundcheck games have:

  • 25 questions;

  • 5 coins for each correct answer;

  • 6-second time limit per question;

  • no division questions;

  • a question distribution that ensures a mix of questions across all 12 tables with an emphasis on the more challenging tables:

    Two times table – between 0 and 2 questions
    Three times table – between 1 and 3 questions
    Four times table – between 1 and 3 questions
    Five times table – between 1 and 3 questions
    Six times table – between 2 and 4 questions
    Seven times table – between 2 and 4 questions
    Eight times table – between 2 and 4 questions
    Nine times table – between 2 and 4 questions
    Ten times table – between 0 and 2 questions
    Eleven times table – between 1 and 3 questions

    Twelve times table – between 2 and 4 questions


Soundcheck Results and Analysis:

All Soundcheck games played are recorded and will allow you to assess their MTC-readiness.


Sessions:

If you have the Sessions bolt-on, you can set your students the task of playing a certain number of Soundcheck games on a regular basis.



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