Table Legs

A Maths Starter of The Day

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Today's starter requires you to learn the 1.3 times table. You can use a "Table Leg" to help you practise. Instructions for making a table leg can be found here.

Can you work out the answer before it is shown?

 

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Keywords: Starter | Arithmetic | Mental Methods | Tables

  • Colin MacKay, And Andrew McPherson., Carnoustie High School.
  • Friday, May 08, 2009
  • "We never thought we could do the 1.4 times table but this helped a lot."
  • Mr Smith, West Sussex, UK
  • Thursday, May 12, 2011
  • "I am an NQT and have only just discovered this website. I nearly wet my pants with joy.
    To the creator of this website and all of those teachers who have contributed to it, I would like to say a big THANK YOU!!! :)."

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This starter has scored a mean of 2.8 out of 5 based on 34 votes.

 

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Note to teacher: Doing this activity once with a class helps students develop strategies. It is only when they do this activity a second time that they will have the opportunity to practise those strategies. That is when the learning is consolidated. Click the button above to regenerate another version of this starter for a random times table.

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Computer Teacher, do your students have access to computers?
Do you have "Laptops in Lessons"?

Whether your students each have a TabletPC or share a desktop PC, this activity lends itself to eLearning (Engaged Learning).

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Here is the URL which will take them to a concise version of this page.

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Here is the URL which will take
them to a page about learning times tables.

www.transum.org/Tables