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Queensmead Primary Academy

Numbots

Read this news article for information on a new maths service that we are trialling for your children to  use at home.

We are delighted to inform you about a new service we’re trialling to support your child’s maths education. The creators of Times Tables Rock Stars have produced a platform for boosting addition and subtraction skills, called NumBots.

Big Difference

NumBots is an online game (currently only playable at play.numbots.com before the apps are released later in 2019) and playing little and often will significantly improve your child’s recall and understanding of number bonds and addition and subtraction facts. These are critical foundations in maths so we are excited by the impact NumBots will have.

Logging In

The children can log in to Numbots by using their logging details for Timestables Rockstars. They might need some help navigating to the website and entering the details but once they’re in, they just need a quiet space to get on with the games for 5 minutes.

Please ask your child’s teacher through Purple Mash or your weekly phone calls if they are struggling to login. Maths Circle (the creators of NumBots) cannot provide username and password information to parents, even during school holidays or out of hours.

Important: please don’t allow siblings, friends or family to answer for them but do support your child if they’re stuck.

Little and often

In order to get the best out of NumBots children should regularly play for short bursts so we would ask you to give them 5 minutes on Saturdays and 5 minutes on Sundays (or more!)

Game Types
  1. Story Mode – the emphasis is on learning the ideas and concepts behind addition and subtraction so it features more diagrams, shapes and question styles.
  2. Challenge Mode – the emphasis is more on speed of recall of key facts, like number bonds to 10, doubling small numbers or adding & taking away in your head.

Please let your child’s teacher know if you have any questions or comments.