Times Market — Lesson 83: Tables practice: 2, 3, 4, 5 and 10

What your child does, card by card

Tables practice: 2, 3, 4, 5 and 10. Practice day! PlayBuddy opens the lesson: “Practice time. Let's get quicker and better.”

First a reminder (“3 × 5”): the beads build 5, 10 and 15, ring by ring, while your child watches. Three groups of 5: 5, 10, 15.

Try it: your child works out 2 × 8 and 5 × 6, with a green ring on the next bead to move.

Five in a row: a mission of 8 tasks with a count of right answers in a row, with the best kept. Your child must work out 3 × 4, 4 × 6, 10 × 7, 5 × 9, 2 × 7, 3 × 9, 4 × 8 and 5 × 7.

Then the beads hide and the sums 4 × 5, 3 × 6 and 10 × 8 are done in the head, the answer picked from 18, 20 and 80.

You're ready! Tables of 2, 3, 4, 5 and 10.

What this lesson trains

13 answers, roughly five minutes: 21 moves of the beads, 5 of them with the top bead and 16 with bottom beads. The largest is 70: tens and ones. Then 3 quick looks in your head.

The first thing your child does: work out 2 × 8 and 5 × 6.

The sum sheet

In Column Tower the lower window is a sum sheet instead of the hands: the column written out one line under another, the line being worked in yellow, the lines done ticked, and the total once the last line is in. The beads keep the running total, so the abacus is never cleared in the middle of a column.

What PlayBuddy and PlayType say

PlayType: “Times means groups of the same number.”

Stars

With 1 or fewer slips across the 13 answers your child earns three stars; 3 or fewer, two.