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Global Challenge
Play until 26th March in school and at home
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In the classroom or at home
Learners can work together or compete within their class at school, or play with their family, friends, or single player at home. Play everyday for the most points!
10 minute sessions delivered for you
An easy-to-use video and scoring interface, delivered for you. Just press play and watch them learn as they join in chanting and moving with the presenter and answer the on-screen challenge questions.
Make learning fun
Improve times table fluency in this super fun, physically active competition. Motivate your learners as they compete for the best score on the global leaderboard!
Win prizes
Do your learners have what it takes to make it to the top? Earn points by playing as many sessions as possible and see if you can earn the coveted Numberfit Trophy and more!
HOW TO WIN THE TIMES TABLE CHALLENGE
1. Play
Customise your sessions with a choice of times tables, difficulty level and number of players. Then compete in as many 10 minute sessions as you can.
2. Have fun
Enjoy getting active and calling out times tables with the presenter. Solve the challenge questions correctly for a high score.
3. Improve
Master all the levels as you move up the global leaderboard. Earn extra points by competing at home and in the classroom.
HOW TO COMPETE
In school
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Play this session with your whole class from your smartboard. They do not need their own devices.
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Students can earn extra points by playing at home. Share the event with parents who can set up free accounts.
At home
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Use a laptop or tablet for your child to play alone or with family and friends.
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You can link your child’s account to their class or they can play independently.
WHAT IS THE TIMES TABLE CHALLENGE
Active times table sessions
- 10 minute sessions delivered by the presenter on screen.
- Custom scoring interface with gamified questions.
- A great starter in the classroom or a fun practise for at home.
Competition
- Compete in the classroom in teams or collaboratively.
- Play at home in single-player mode or with friends and family.
- Earn points by playing the most sessions and answering challenge questions correctly.
Prizes
- Bring glory to your country by being on top of the times table global leaderboard
- Win the Times Table trophy and a free subscription to the Times Table Mastery
- Participation certificates for every student
Times Tables
The key concept of times tables is explored with skip counting, multiplication and division questions.
Movement
Sessions include physical activity to keep learners active, healthy and engaged.
Mindfulness
All sessions include mindfulness to help learners re-centre themselves after the excitement.
WHY PARTICIPATE INTHE TIMES TABLE CHALLENGE
TEACHERS
Boost mathematics engagement while leading your class to international glory
- Perfect as a Times Table starter that takes only 10 minutes
- Includes physical activity and mindfulness
- Includes quizzes and assessments
- Will engage all of your students
- Can have your class work together collaboratively
- Or compete in teams to really drive the excitement
- Can be shared as a resource to be used at home
PARENTS
Help your child learn their times tables and enjoy mathematics
- Perfect to engage your child in times tables in a fun way
- Get the whole family involved and compete with parents, siblings and friends
- Includes physical activity and mindfulness
- Includes quizzes and a leaderboard
- Work together with your child collaboratively
- Or compete against them and their siblings if you can still remember your times tables
- Makes practice fun and not a battle
V2.0 WHAT'S NEW FORTIMES TABLE CHALLENGE
On-screen times table quiz questions
On-screen times table quiz questions
Challenge your learners to solve the on screen questions for more points. If they know that 2 x 5 x 10 can they solve 2 x 50? Worked solutions as you go.
Better quality
Better quality
We have improved our videos with better activities, visual support, clearer audio, quiz questions and more.
More gamification with points, teams and a leaderboard
More gamification with points, teams and a leaderboard
Choose if you would like to play competitively in teams, collaboratively as a class, family, or single player. You will then be led through the session as you earn points and move up the leaderboard.
Easy to use at home
Easy to use at home
Use sessions at home to supplement school teaching or as part of homeschooling.
Students can now link up their accounts with their class to earn extra points for their school teams by playing at home.
Shorter sessions
Shorter sessions
Sessions now only take 10 minutes to complete making them ideal for a classroom starter or quick practice at home.
FAQs
Times Table Circuits provide targeted maths help for primary and secondary teachers and parents of 5-14 year olds (KS1, KS2 & KS3). They are ideal for anyone who wants to incorporate learning with physical and mental wellbeing, and would like a tool for being able to teach active, fun times tables lessons.
No, Numberfit believes that ALL children should be able to access resources to help them grasp this key skill, therefore Times Table Circuits are available completely FREE for the duration of the global challenge. After this, you will keep beginner-level sessions, if you would like to help your learners master times tables with more resources you can upgrade your subscription here.
You will get free access to the beginner, intermediate and advanced competition sessions for the 2-12x table. These are each comprised of physically active videos to follow as well as on-screen times table questions to answer.
Yes! Times Table Circuits have been tested at home and in the smallest of classrooms. All movement is on the spot so no furniture needs re-arranging. They are an ideal classroom active learning resource.
No, simply a device to display the times tables sessions e.g. a smartboard, laptop or phone.
Each Times Table session is approximately 10 minutes long. This includes 5 minutes of physically active videos, 4 minutes of challenge questions and 1 minute of mindfulness.
As often as you like, but if you want to win the global challenge then try to do as many as you can and make sure to do at least 1 per day to keep up your streak bonus points.
Yes, we provide 3 difficulty levels for the sessions for you to choose from:
- Beginner – for learners who are new to a times table, had a slow pace and all questions in order
- Intermediate – for learners who are familiar with a times table, has a fairly quick pace and questions in random order.
- Advanced – for learners who have mastered a times table, answers are required immediately and division questions are included.
Sessions will become available once the competition starts. As there is no preparation needed you can simply press play when you are ready to compete with your learners.
Yes, we will be announcing a times table challenge winner from the students who played individually at home as well as the winning class.
The multiplication tables check is a mandatory exam that students in English schools must take in year 4 (8-9 year olds). The aim is to determine whether students can fluently recall their times tables up to 12.
It is an on-screen test consisting of 25 times table questions where students get 6 seconds to answer each question.
Help prepare your learners for the test by competing in the Times Table Global Challenge.
