Lesson 91: Sum racer: a times tables race game
Level 7, Times Market. Work out each times fact in your head and pick the answer. Every right answer is a nitro boost for PlayType.
What your child does, card by card
Game time: Sum Racer. Every right fact is a boost! PlayBuddy opens the lesson: “Game time! Let's play with the beads!”
Game time: Sum Racer fills the lesson window. PlayType’s pink car races the panda’s blue car; 10 times facts (3 × 4, 6 × 7, 8 × 5, 9 × 3, 7 × 7, 4 × 8, 6 × 9, 5 × 5, 8 × 8 and 9 × 7) come one at a time, and each right answer, picked from three chips below, is a nitro boost. A wrong pick costs only a moment.
Great racing! Sum Racer is on the Games page too.
What this lesson trains
Times facts recalled quickly, the building blocks of every times sum on the abacus. The same race is free on the Games page with the tables of 2, 5 and 10 or all the tables.
Fingers and hands
During the game the answer chips take the hands’ place in the lower window.
What PlayBuddy and PlayType say
PlayBuddy: “Game time! Let's play with the beads!”
PlayBuddy: “Click Let's Begin, or press Enter!”
Stars
A finished round earns the lesson’s stars; a miss costs nothing.