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 have introduced this across the whole school as we know how important fluency is in this area. to raise the profile further we have a weekly 'Champion Rock Star' in each class celebrating the pupil who has done the most time practising their times tables.
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 have introduced Numbots to run alongside Times Tables Rock Stars for all the pupils in the school to aid fluency in addition and subtraction.