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Times tables your child still knows next term.
School teaches the tables. A few minutes a day at home makes them stick: each fact comes back just before your child would forget it, and goes further away every time they get it right.
Tap a square to see how long she has held it.
A class can't bring every fact back to every child.
In a class of thirty, the lesson moves on to the next table once most children have the last one. Nobody can track which of the 78 facts each child is about to lose, and bring that one back on the right day. So a table learned in a week is mostly gone a few weeks later.
That matters because nearly everything after the tables leans on them. Long division, fractions, ratio and percentages all assume 7 × 8 arrives at once. A child who has to work it out spends their attention on the sum, and has none left for the new idea. In England, every child is checked on all of them up to 12 × 12 in Year 4.
A few minutes a day is enough, if they go on the facts your child is closest to losing.
This summer my daughter learned all of them in three weeks.
On paper, twenty minutes got her through the 7 times table, asked in any order. Learning it in one sitting was the easy part. Without a schedule, most of it would have gone by the end of the week, so I built one.
She met every fact by 28 August, including the hard ones from 6 × 6 to 12 × 12. Through the summer holidays, nobody had to ask her to practise. Today 64 of the 78 are on gaps of three weeks or more. A gap only grows when she answers correctly after the wait, so each of those is a fact she has shown she keeps.
That's one child, and she's mine. The method isn't new: spacing practice out over time has been studied for more than a century, and it beats cramming in study after study. What's new is having it run for you, one fact at a time.
How it decides what to ask
- A new fact
is shown with its answer, then asked three more times a few questions apart.
- After that
each fact has its own gap: tomorrow, then three days, then longer every time it's answered correctly, out to months.
- A miss
is never marked wrong. The answer appears, your child types it, and the fact comes back sooner.
- 7 × 8 and 8 × 7
are one fact, asked either way round. That's 78 facts to learn, not 144.
- A daily round
takes about three minutes. There are no points, no timers on screen and no leaderboards.
- Then division
Once multiplication is held, it moves on to division, as sharing and as grouping.
You see what's held and what keeps slipping. Your child doesn't.
Your page shows which facts are held, which keep slipping, and which days they practised. Children never see a miss count.
Brothers and sisters can share one iPad. It asks who's practising before every round, so nobody's progress gets mixed up.
Each child's progress follows them between devices, and the app keeps working offline once it's on the Home Screen.
Children can open it with Touch ID, with no password to remember and no account of their own.
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