Our "recall" worksheets are available to school subscribers only and used to boost students' memory of the tables, while helping them see relationships within them.
These are not your average random question sheets.
With elements of low stakes quizzing, spaced repetition, depth and breadth, inverse operations, commutativity and more, the recall sheets will complement your "teaching for mastery" approach.
🌟Special Features!🌟
1. What's inside?
The recall sheets all follow our "baseline > practice > check" model :
They start with a baseline.
The next few sheets are for pupils to practise.
Then they'll do a check sheet.
The packs containing a single table go further: they release the full fact family in deliberate succession so that by the end, learners can not only recall one set of multiplication facts but also the commutative set and corresponding division facts.
2. Rock Boxes
The 'Rock Boxes' are simply the first 12 questions of the table written in order so that students can think their way through them and use then them as a reference for the rest of the sheet - they're basically look-up tables with a fancy name.
What's so great about them? Rock Boxes are there to give them a fallback if they need it. The time will come later in the packs for all learners to practise questions at random. At the start, however, our ambition is to give all learners a "safe" way into the sheets so that high levels of confidence are maintained.
Where do I find them? They're in packs containing a single times table, on the early sheets before Check 1.
3. Hidden Patterns
The sheets have been so carefully put together by our team of educators that "hidden" between some groups of questions lies a pattern. This is so that teachers can shine a light on the relationships within the tables.
What sort of patterns do you mean? We've planted consecutive questions where we've...
...flipped the factors e.g. 6×10 and 10×6 | Great for highlighting commutativity |
...increased or decreased a factor by 1 e.g. 7×10 and 8×10 | great for "one group more/one group less " |
...doubled one of the factors e.g. 5×10 and 10×10 | great for learning that if you double (or halve) a factor you'll double (or halve) the product. AKA "associative law of multiplication". |
...made two answers in a row add up to the third in the sequence e.g. 11×10 and 1×10 added give 12×10 | Great for learning that if you don't know the answer to a particular question you can add two facts you do know. e.g. if you don't know 12 × 10 you can do 11 × 10 plus 1 × 10. AKA "distributive law of multiplication". |