Welcome to our maths lesson

L.O: To apply our multiplication knowledge

Thank you for coming but let’s explain why you are joining us today

Being able to recall multiplication facts is a key skill for many mathematical skills.

Here are just a few examples:

• Money
• Measuring, especially area and perimeter
• Problem solving skills
• Shopping!
• Percentages, ratio, fractions and decimals

A GUIDE TO THE MTC

• MTC stands for ‘Multiplication Tables Check’.
• Online quiz for year 4 children in England, set by the government.
• Pupils demonstrate their times tables skills, which they’ve been practising for years.
• Helps us to know your children are ready for year 5 maths

• Must be taken in school. This year it begins week beginning Monday 7th June 2027.
• Start with 3 practice questions
• Then 25 multiplication questions (no division)
• For each question, you must enter an answer within 6s
• 3s pause between questions

• Full marks is 25/25 but there’s no pass mark

The national expectation is that most children should gain full marks

• Each school finds out the Local Authority and National average but not each other’s results.
• More guidance can be found here

The most important parts

How you can USE this information to play other games

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Times Tables Rock Stars: Play

Here are the average speeds of a child’s times tables

Choose the one that is not less than 6 seconds to practise at home

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The National Curriculum expectations are:

By the end of Year 3- count from 0 in multiples of 4, 8, 50 and 100; find 10 or 100 more or less than a given number AND recall and use multiplication and division facts for the 3, 4 and 8 multiplication tables

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By the end of Year 4- count in multiples of 6, 7, 9, 25 and 1000

AND recall multiplication and division facts for multiplication tables up to 12 × 12

Help is available on the Ravensmead website!

Flashback Thursday

Prove this!

3 x 5 is the same as 5 x 3

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On your sheet, show how we know this is true using a picture AND number sentence

Answers to the challenges