ErinD Posted February 12, 2012 Share Posted February 12, 2012 In case anyone is wondering about this program as you plan your next year, we reviewed it last April. Then this week, I tested my daughter to see what she had retained from it over the last 10 months. Here's the review, and an explanation of how it works: http://theusualmayhem.blogspot.com/2012/02/times-tales-update-review.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bpskowski Posted February 12, 2012 Share Posted February 12, 2012 Thanks for posting. I was considering it. Now, it's moved onto my "to buy" list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warneral Posted February 12, 2012 Share Posted February 12, 2012 Thanks for the review! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PollyOR Posted February 12, 2012 Share Posted February 12, 2012 Thank you. I bought the books years ago, but the kiddo I bought them for mastered those facts quickly without any help. I wasn't convinced if I should use them with my 9yo. I think I'll give it a try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mytwomonkeys Posted February 12, 2012 Share Posted February 12, 2012 i used times tales with my daughter at the beginning of this year (not the dvd though, the book). it took about 3 weeks to get through it all, and then we drilled the facts with games and flashcards, (and we still review with CLE flashcards 3x week). she is EXCELLENT with her times tables!! truly, she can answer the entire CLE flashcard stack (0-12) in 6 minutes! i totally attribute it to times tales. before that she was really struggling. i definitely plan to use it with my son as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superfly Posted February 12, 2012 Share Posted February 12, 2012 Thank you for sharing. We just got our dvd in the mail yesterday and will start using it with DD8 tomorrow. I hope our results are just as good! This last year of math has been a struggle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
................... Posted February 12, 2012 Share Posted February 12, 2012 We used it with my VS son and had great results. We did not use the DvDbut I did follow directions carefully. But we followed it up with photocopying the quiz pages with the characters for 3 months followed by the pages without characters for 3 months, mixed in with free pages on the 5's and 3's and 2's. So we did six months of drill, and then moved onto Saxon 5/4 and I've been sure to use the drill from That as well. (most kids would not need this much drill.) Times Tales was a good start but you still need drill because you need to increase spEed. That said, for my son who has a Horrible rote memory, times tables were a totally insurmountable obstacle. Times TAles completely solved the problem! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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