Times Tables Rock Stars & Numbots
Times Tables Rock Stars
To aid us with our times tables as a school we are using 'Times tables Rock Stars'.
What is it?
In either paper form or online, Times Tables Rock Stars is a carefully sequenced programme of daily times tables practice.
This format has very successfully boosted times tables recall speed for hundreds of thousands of pupils over the last 8 years in over 14,000 schools - both primary and secondary - worldwide.
At St Pius X
We run this across the whole school as we know how important fluency is in this area. It is used for homework and dojo points are awarded for each time a pupil uses this site to practise their tables at home.
Numbots
What is it?
Addition & Subtraction. Solved.! From the innovators who bring you Times Tables Rock Stars, comes a highly engaging platform for learning to add and subtract… NumBots!
NumBots is all about every child achieving the “triple win” of understanding, recall and fluency in mental addition and subtraction, so that they move from counting to calculating. ext...
At St Pius X
We use Numbots to run alongside Times Tables Rock Stars for all the pupils in the school to aid fluency in addition and subtraction.