Multiplication Tables Check (MTC) Year 4 2019/20
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National Curriculum Expectations Year Group
Expectation
Year 1
Count in multiples of 2, 5 and 10. Recall and use all doubles to 10 and corresponding halves.
Year 2
Recall and use multiplication and division facts for the 2, 5 and 10 times tables including recognising odd and even numbers.
Year 3
Recall and use multiplication and division facts for the 3, 4 and 8 times tables.
Year 4
Recall and use multiplication and division facts for tables up to 12 x 12
Year 5
Revision of all times tables and division facts up to 12 x 12
Year 6
Revision of all times tables and division facts up to 12 x 12
R A T I O
Why is Multiplication important?
Multiplication Tables Check (MTC)
The purpose of the MTC is to determine whether Year 4 pupils can fluently recall their multiplication tables up to 12x12 as outlined in the National Curriculum.
The Multiplication Tables Check (MTC) will be administered to children in Year 4, starting in the 2019-20 academic year. In June 2019 this was trialled across the country.
The check will take place within a 3 week window in June 2020
Additional access arrangements will be put into place for those children who require this such as: next button between questions, input assistance, question reader, an audible time alert to support the on screen timer.
Multiplication Tables Check (MTC)
There will be a ‘try out’ area which will be used to familiarise children with the test format.
The check can be administered to individuals, small groups or whole class depending on children’s needs.
Children will be delivered as an online assessment using a computer, where they will have to answer multiplication questions against a clock. The test will last no longer than 5 minutes; children will have 6 seconds to answer each question in a series of 25.
By the end of the summer term you will receive your child’s MTC score or the reason they have not been entered.
Results will not be published in any performance tables.
The DfE state that the motivation behind the MTC is purely to allow teachers a chance to identify children who need some more help with their times tables to stop them from falling further behind their peers as they move up to Year 5 and then Year 6.
How can you help at home? • • • • • •
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Make learning times tables fun! Practise both in and out of order Learn the inverse too Use relationships to help e.g. if you know 10 times a number then you know 5 times too. Practise little and often Look at how times tables link to one another – what are the relationships and patterns Use tricks to help too e.g. the 9 times table Google times tables tips and tricks
How can you help at home? What is the times tables check? Snappy Maths Hit the Button Times tables games Times Tables guidance URBrainy Multiplication Tables Check Times tables songs TT RockStars, great for increasing speed of recall Times Tables activities
Any Questions?