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I'm a teacher in a primary school, and I created KS2 Times Tables to help me with a problem: our students enjoy their times tables tests, and get very excited when they progress from the Bronze award through Silver, Gold, Platinum and Kryptonite... but, it can be a handful handing out, marking and feeding back tests for 30 children at different levels each week. Not to mention how wasteful and expensive all that photocopying is.
So I created this app to help, using the latest research on effective teaching of multiplication in the Key Stage 2 national curriculum. Choose your level from Bronze (the 2, 4 and 8 times tables, including division, inverse operations, and fractions) up to Kryptonite (all the tables, and tens, hundreds, decimals, squaring, cubing and fractions).
You get five minutes to answer forty questions presented to focus on one at a time. Each question varies the procedure and concept used, as the latest pedagogical research shows this is far more effective at helping you develop quick fact recall and helps you apply the facts to other areas of maths. These questions are not just simple random questions like some times tables tests have, they are a variety of carefully chosen concepts and procedures which stretch your mastery, so you will truly know your tables inside out and back to front.
KS2 Times Tables does not just test multiplication facts, it helps you practise the related division facts at the same time, varies the order of the equations, and extends the skills into the tens and hundreds, and into the decimals. Every test also includes multiplication and division of fractions, from unit fractions of amounts in Bronze, up to converting mixed numbers in Kryptonite. Kryptonite has its name for a reason: if you pass Kryptonite reliably you will have mastered all KS2 knowledge and stretched yourself deep into the KS3 curriculum. And when you have finished, you get feedback specific to your answers, so you know where to focus next time.
I don't like those educational apps which only give you the first level free, and I don't like the idea of showing children adverts when they should be focusing on learning. So the value proposition is clear and simple: I charge the lowest price upfront to cover my costs and time, and in return you get all the app features and levels without ads or in-app purchases.
I like the varying formats, and countdown timer, but the app is a little weak in substance. It would be nice to have some kind of feedback after inputting an answer. Did I get it right or wrong? You can input a wrong answer, and there is no indication that you missed the question, it just gives you the next question. At the end, it tells you how many you got right, but not which ones you missed, which really isn’t that helpful for learning. It would also be nice to have some analytics/history to see your progress over time. There is no way to see how many times you’ve practiced, what you’re consistently missing, or if you’re improving. With some small additional features this would be a really solid app. I think an indicator for correct vs incorrect is an absolute most for this to be a useful app though. With that feature alone my rating would go up to maybe 3 or 4 stars.
Developer Response
Thanks for the excellently detailed feedback. This is a Version 1.0, and one of my top priorities for updates is making more immediate feedback of each question, so I’m glad that it is something you’d want. Keeping track of history will need more work though. You’re right that the right-and wrong indicator will be easier to set up first, so I shall prioritise that first. I’m also working on a detailed explanation section for each kind of question which would work into the feedback you suggest. So thank you!Version 1.1Thanks to your encouragement I’ve added a ‘correct’ animation and listed incorrect questions for each question type on the feedback page. And I’m working on further improvements to feedback :)
There's a new Unobtanium level for all you hard-working children who need something even more challenging than Kryptonite! It includes thousands and thousandths, and practising the 13, 14, 15 and 16 times tables! Good luck...!
* Moved Unobtanium to be hidden above Kryptonite *
* Also fixed a minor display issue on the feedback screen *
Version 2.4.1
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