Topics: Starter | Arithmetic | Tables

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• This Starter is a fine activity for pupils who have already mastered the main times tables and haven't had to learn a new times table for a long time. After the initial learning, the best way to develop fast recall is by using Table Legs. In fact why don't you, the teacher, try using it so that you experience what your pupils go through when learning times tables?
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• I thought it was interesting to see in the image included in the tweet below how the activity has been translated into Spanish but even the decimal points have been transformed into commas!

  Una activitat que està fent fama són els "escalfem" (activitat de curta durada minuts en començar la classe Un exemple i un llistat https://t.co/v0mmrX5SGRhttps://t.co/0v8OPVZ8Eg.
  Recomano pensar el de la taula del 5,5 quina estratègia heu utilitzat? pic.twitter.com/TDC0vxAali

  — David Barba (@DavidBarba2) September 21, 2020

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