for age 7 - 10 years
Learn your times tables the fun way! In this adventure story, kids travel the world learning a different times table in each country.
Well-researched with advice from School Support Services, Wellington.
Tables are chanted in 3 ways at a perfect pace. Each table can be cued separately. Great fun at home or school.
Free Teaching Notes enhance this CD, enabling you to print out any or all of the pages as required.
An exciting virtual reality adventure takes our heroes, three children, round planet Earth. In each country they meet someone who introduces them to their culture and joins them in practising a times table.
We present the times tables in rhythm and activity as learning can be more effective in these modes. The children are invited to join in a physical activity, such as jumping, clapping and tapping sticks. This caters well for kinaesthetic learners.
Each table is chanted in three ways. Firstly, at classroom pace, we chant 'One two's are two' etc with accompanying rhythm. Then we chant again with the rhythm, 'One times two equals...', this time leaving a gap for children to answer, '... two'.
Then at top speed we chant without the backing rhythm, which prepares children for possible real life situations where they may need to quickly recall a particular answer.
This resource is great fun, has strong appeal to boys as well as girls, and is also excellent for older slow learners.
A values component is included in this resource. We use positive language and highlight a different virtue in each country. The story is fast-moving with wacky humour in places, giving the message that values need not be boring or 'goody-goody'.
Track Titles
- Story begins...
- Times Two in Australia
- Times Three in Samoa
- Times Four in Mexico
- Times Five in France
- Times Six in Germany
- Times Seven in India
- Times Eight in Japan
- Times Nine in USA
- Times Ten in New Zealand