Times Tables- Why are they important to learn?

The ability to rehearse and understand multiplications up to and including 12 by the final year of primary school will enable your child to confidently and skillfully tackle the more complex mathematical subjects. The ability to fully understand multiplication and have fluency and instant recall will boost your child’s confidence in other areas of Mathematics. Many of the tasks they are required to do both at school, and in the home requires this basic skill. Generally, division and long multiplication are introduced into a child’s curriculum following basic multiplication. Without this primary knowledge, the following stages would be much more challenging to understand and process. 

To help your child with improving their times table skills please use the website below for some tips. 

https://www.transum.org/Tables/Times_Tables.asp

Maths Question

Here are this weeks Maths questions. Please submit your answers to ryan.matchett@cg.catholic.edu.au.

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Traffic Jams

Cars can be lined up in traffic jams in different ways. For example two cars could be ordered - red car, blue car or blue car, red car.

How many ways can three cars be lined up? How many ways can four cars be lined up?

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