During the Easter holidays there will be NO work set. If you want to do any school work with your child please get them to learn their tables. When I was a child I had chicken pox when I was 9 or 10 and during the time I was off school I practised my tables by writing them out, covering them up and writing them again. I then mixed the order of the table I was learning. This meant that I KNEW my tables rather than just saying it off by heart as a chant.
Fortunately the children do not have to write them out again and again, although they can, as there are websites that help.
Did you know that by the end of Year 4 children are supposed to know ALL of their tables?
If the children click on the above link they have a choice of tables to learn. The work is then broke down into sections:
view, read aloud and repeat
test themselves in sequence with the computer checking their score
drag answers to the questions
test themselves in a shuffled order
multiple choice
diploma
If they know their tables their maths scores will improve. Pick a table and keep practising that table until they know it.
