How to use
Getting started
Teachers: create a class and select all the times tables required by the curriculum for your students' year level as priority tables. These receive attention first. Choose a practice duration or finish time, then share the class QR or code. You can open the QR in another tab for a whiteboard or print it for the wall.
Learners: scan your class QR or enter the class code. Use your initials and choose a four-digit PIN. If someone already uses your initials, the site adds a number; use that full label when returning. Keep your PIN private and ask your teacher for a temporary reset PIN if you forget it.
Give it a few sessions
The site needs several uses to build a useful picture of which facts you find difficult, which you answer correctly but slowly, and which you can recall fluently. It can only learn about facts you have actually practised. The first session is a starting point, not a final assessment of your strengths or weaknesses.
Return regularly using the same learner account so your practice carries over. Correct, quicker answers usually spread reviews further apart. Slow correct answers keep their current mastery level and review interval, without counting towards the next level; mistakes bring facts back sooner. Some familiar questions are mixed in to give you breathing room. Correct familiar answers do not raise mastery or extend their review interval, while mistakes can bring them back for review.
The practice gears
- Gear 1 — Learning and reviews: your teacher's priority times tables come first. Its name changes to Daily reviews once every priority fact has a successful ordinary answer and a review date. That name does not mean every fact is fluent yet.
- Gear 2 — Mastery: when today's eligible priority work is cleared, practise the other times tables and division. Division reverses multiplication: 7 × 6 = 42, so 42 ÷ 7 = 6. Each direction still has its own progress because knowing one form does not guarantee recalling another.
- Gear 3 — Extension: when the earlier gears have no eligible reviews or new facts left to introduce today, move to doubles and halves. Smaller numbers come first, building towards 100. New odd halves follow their even neighbour: half of 30 is 15, so half of 31 is 15.5.
- Gear 4 — Extension II: once the earlier gears' eligible work is cleared, practise square numbers, fractions, decimal and percentage conversions, metric units, and 12/24-hour time. Some questions use multiple choice.
Gears describe the work available in this session, not a permanent level or a requirement to make every eye fully open. At the next session the site checks earlier gears first, so you may return to Gear 1. A fact can remain scheduled for another day even after you move up a gear. Multiplication facts are limited to three answered appearances per direction in an allocation; reaching that limit does not erase a mistake or establish mastery.
How the eyes open
Each fact has its own eye symbol and written level. Colour is not needed to tell them apart. For multiplication, 7 × 6 and 6 × 7 are tracked separately; their matching division facts also have separate progress.
- Learning — closed eye: the fact has not yet been answered successfully, or a mistake has returned it to learning.
- Developing — partly open eye: you have answered correctly, but there is not yet enough consistent, spaced, quick evidence for fluency. Correct answers that take longer than 6 seconds do not earn fluency evidence.
- Fluent — open eye: at least 2 consecutive qualifying first-try correct reviews, each within 6 seconds, with the review evidence separated by at least 20 hours.
- Automatic — open eye with a sparkle: at least 4 consecutive qualifying first-try correct reviews, each within 5 seconds. These spaced reviews must span at least 7 days; answering repeatedly in one sitting cannot earn this level.
Corrections after a mistake help you learn but do not count as independent mastery evidence. Interrupted answers do not earn speed evidence. A slow correct answer never closes an eye: above 6 seconds it cannot advance towards Fluent, and above 5 seconds it cannot advance from Fluent to Automatic. A later mistake returns the fact to Learning; you can build it back through practice.
Making practice work
Answer carefully and honestly. A slow correct answer is useful information, not a failure. Read the explanation after a mistake and have another go when the fact returns. The eye levels and timing thresholds are practice guides, not grades or proof of ability; teachers should consider input method, accessibility and classroom observation.
All gears share the teacher's time allocation, capped at 20 minutes. A duration gives each learner their own time from starting; a common finish time ends everyone's window together, so late starters get less time. Teachers can open one additional session that day, replacing unused time from the first. Sign out when finished on a shared device.