Time tables Rock Stars
Times tables are the essential building blocks that underpin every maths curriculum, yet children always find them a challenge.
Times tables…
Times Tables Rock Stars is an award-winning maths learning platform that helps pupils practise and recall their times tables like a rock star, using paper worksheets, and playing online adaptive question-based games via the app and browser.
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What TTRS have said
Now used in over 16,000 primary and secondary schools worldwide, Time Tables Rock Stars is a trusted classroom resource that is helping boost multiplication and division recall and maths confidence of millions of students across the globe.
Times tables Rock stars takes the hassle out and puts the FUN into learning and recalling our times tables. The innovative learning platform helps children become fluent in their times tables, which in turn cuts thinking delay, enabling you to teach them more complicated maths.
Suitable for all learners aged 6 years and up, the question-based games automatically adapt to each child’s unique learning needs, helping them to recall their times tables in record speed. Accessible on any device, via the app or browser, children can play anytime, anywhere.
Plus, the engaging gamification and motivating rewards mean it is never difficult to entice children to play. Our children love it- Result!
TTRS energises maths throughout Malvern and creates a real buzz around times tables.
A game mode to suit every need
Single player
Garage – the questions will only come from the times tables the teacher has set for the week. It will include multiplication and division questions. As pupils start to answer questions, TT Rock Stars works out which facts they take longer on and will give them more of these questions to answer. The Garage is best for getting quicker at a few facts. Players get 10 coins per question.
Studio – the questions in the Studio can be anything from 1×1 up to 12×12. TT Rock Stars calculates the mean response time from their last 10 games in the Studio and translates that time into a Rock Status.
- Less than 1 second per question = Rock Hero
- Less than 2 second per question = Rock Legend
- Less than 3 second per question = Rock Star
- Less than 4 second per question = Headliner
- Less than 5 second per question = Support Act
- Less than 6 second per question = Breakthrough Artist
- Less than 7 second per question = Unsigned Act
- Less than 8 second per question = Gigger
- Less than 9 second per question = Busker
- Less than 10 second per question = Garage Rocker
- Less than 11 second per question = Wannabe
Players earn 1 coin per question and the Studio is the place for them to set their best time across all the tables.
If you click on your avatar icon in the top right of the screen and then click My Stats, a heatmap like the one below will load. It shows how successful your child is at each of the facts. At Malvern, we monitor our heat maps regularly and target gaps to reach Gone Green status.
When you play Soundcheck, you get 20 questions each with a 5-second time limit. The questions are multiplication only and evenly weighted in terms of difficulty each time you play. Players earn 5 coins per correct answer.
Multiplayer
Rock Arena – The Arena allows players to compete against all other members of their Band (their Bandmates would need to join the same game in order to compete together). A new Arena game starts every 15 seconds and once the clock starts they race to answer more questions than the others. In the Arena, questions will only come from the times tables the teacher has set for the week, similar to the Garage. They earn 1 coin per correct answer.
Rock Festival – The Rock Festival games are open to players from around the world. Like the Arena, there is no limit to the number of players who can join a game; however, unlike the Arena, questions are selected at random from 1×1 to 12×12. Pupils might choose the Rock Festival if they were playing at home (and therefore couldn’t easily synchronise playing against a classmate) or wanted to compete against others not in their Band. They earn 1 coin per correct answer.
TTRS at home
TTRS is a programme that reaps rapid results, and thanks to the exciting gamification and rewards, children love playing it!
As Times Tables Rock Stars is available to play on mobile devices via our app, as well as our play website, your child will be able to practise at home or on-the-go, whenever suits your family.
To find out more about Time Tables rock stars at home, take a look at this parent guide.
