Mastering Number @KS2
"Learning multiplication facts to automaticity".
As a school we are engaged in the Mastering Number at KS2 programme. The aim is for ALL pupils to secure multiplication facts to automaticity. The fact just pops into their head – no hesitation!
Year 4
Sessions focus on multiplication fact retrieval alongside conceptual and structural understanding of the multiplicative relationship.
Year 5
Sessions still focus on fact retrieval – more opportunities to connect multiplication to division facts and making further conceptual connections.
GOING FOR GOLD
We do not learn sets of facts such as the 5-times table. We learn just two facts a week in sessions called Going for Gold.
We just say three numbers, we do not say ‘times’, ‘multiplied by’,… so for this fact 5 × 9 = 45, we just say 5, 9, 45. 9 × 5 = 45, we say
5, 9, 45 for this fact as well!
Please support your child to know to automaticity
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