The TTRS paper version, available to schools only, is a great way to boost recall and understanding of the tables particularly if devices are not readily available in school.
The magic behind the worksheets:
Central to the TTRS "little-and-often" approach. Use these daily for short bursts of practice. Despite their simple appearance, they pack a pedagogical punch. 🥊
Recall
The packs are really simple to use in class and each contains...
A Baseline Allow a maximum of 5 minutes. | Use this to get a measure of where they're at now. Ideally enter the scores out of 60 (not the time taken) into the website (by pressing the Enter Data button) so that you can later compare them to the scores for the Checks. |
Practice Sheets Allow a maximum of 3 minutes. Do not collect the score | The way the questions have been ordered, weighted and presented have been carefully planned. These are not your average practice sheets! |
Check 1 and Check 2 Sheets Allow a maximum of 5 minutes. | These follow the days spent doing the practice sheets and are similar to the Baseline sheet so that when you enter the data they allow you to check on your students' awesome progress 👍 |
Greater Depth
To get greater depth from our worksheets, after going through the answers we suggest asking the class...
Who can spot a pattern from one question to the next?
It may need an example on the board to start with and then ongoing use of the following prompts:
What's the same and what's different?
Give me an example of...
How are the questions are related?
What do you notice?
Which set of recall worksheets to use?
There are packs for individual tables as well as combos.
Here is a rule of thumb to go by:
Tables | Age |
2s, 5s and 10s | typically suitable for year 2/grade 1 |
3s, 4s and 8s | typically suitable for year 3/grade 2 |
6s, 7s and 9s | typically suitable for year 4/grade 3 |
11s and 12s | also typically suitable for year 4/grade 3 |
Older pupils who have fallen behind would benefit from dipping into any of the above packs. |
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Full Set | aimed at pupils who already have a grasp/experience of the tables |