Product: Times Tables Cube
Contents: All the times tables up to 12 presented on a cube that turns inside out
Numbers 1 to 12 in English, French, German and Spanish
Links to free times tables quiz sheets - Key Stage 1 & Key Stage 2
Age: 6 - 12 years
Price: Around £6.50
Designer: Stephen Wattleworth created the Times Tables Cube on the folding cube. He was inspired by the fact that there are 12 times tables and each could be presented individually on a cube face.
What We Like: Useful arrows to guide user around cube and locate the tables they wish to practice
Clear font on bright coloured backgrounds
The answers are a different colour
Because the product is not school-like, children have no hang-ups about using it
It is great for learning a particular times tables
Perfect for revising times tables that have been previously learnt
Siblings can work together taking it in turns to ask sums
How To Play: Find the tables you want to practice by locating the green dot and following the arrows around the cube to the red dot. Then at the doube-headed arrow, turn the cube inside out and locate the green dot again. Once again follow the arrows around the cube.
Learn a times tables by reading it perhaps in your head or out loud. Then cover up the coloured answers and test yourself.
Take it in turns with a sibling, friend or parent to ask different sums and see if they give the correct answer.
Where To Buy: Good toy and gift stores and online Educational Toys and Games
In the Range: Try our Dinosaurs Cube, Word Forming Cube, European Nations Cube, Human Body Cube… There are 14 ZooBooKoo cubes in the range
Testimonials: 'The Multiplication Times Tables Cube is fantastic value... and so compulsive to use. Maxi has taken it to bed with him each night,' Great Toy Guide, Oct 2010
'I do so love your Multiplication Times Tables Cube, it is so clever,' Mrs Lilian G, Dorset, July 2010
'The Times Tables Cube is a colourful fun cube that unfolds to reveal the times tables 1-12. Numbers are also shown in French, Spanish and German. The cube has a tactile feel to it that we liked,' Angels and Urchins, June 10
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