Ninja Maths
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'Ninja Maths' has changed my classroom. What began as moment of inspiration has snowballed into a change of culture within not only my class but every class that uses 'Ninja Maths'. Students have knitted replica ninja's, written songs and created film clips based upon 'Ninja Maths'. Also a whole new behaviour management plan created just because of what I call the 'Ninja Revolution'.
So what is 'Ninja Maths'?
Put simply it is a tool you can use as a part of your maths program to help motivate and inspire learning of basic facts. The program covers multiplication, division, subtraction and addition. An excel document, which generates 151 random questions every time it is opened, is used to test how many correct basic facts students can produce in three minutes. The score the student achieves is compared to the Ninja ranking poster and the student receives the corresponding ninja card. Sounds simple, and it is. At all the trial schools the students have displayed remarkable motivation to learn their basic facts and have unsurprisingly displayed remarkable improvement.
Why does this program work?
Basic facts
knowledge is the basis for all mathematic concepts and ‘Ninja Maths’ makes it
an enjoyable and motivating experience for all students. Students learning basic
facts is essential for them to advance their mathematical skills and knowledge.
Each student is encouraged to improve at a rate that is drawn from their own
internal motivation to have success. Due to the clear evidence of improvement
over a short amount of time, students gain confidence in their own ability, as
they can clearly see their own progress. The ‘Ninja Maths’ program caters for
students of all ability levels and challenges them all to get better.
How else can it be used?
As a behaviour management tool. Students with the highest ranking ninja scores (this could be most improved, among many other options) get rewarded by being released to recess, lunch and/or home first. You would be surprised by how effective this small reward can be to increased motivation for learning and behaviour.
So how do we know it works?
The improvement in all classes that have implemented 'Ninja Maths' is nothing short of remarkable. If you are familiar with John Hattie's 'Effect size', you will know that 0.4 is the normal improvement seen in an area of learning over the course of a year. After analysing the data from the classes using Ninja Maths for a term it was found to have an effect size of 1.72. That is over 4 years worth of improvement in 10 weeks!
What do you get?
You will receive 9 different printable ninja cards and the Ninja Ranking poster which explains the different rankings and scores required to achieve them, with amazing illustrations drawn by professional illustrator Paul Spencer. One excel document which contains four spread sheets one for each of the four operations. This excel document will generate 151 random questions for each of the operations every time it is opened. A PDF document explaining the easy steps involved in implementing 'Ninja Maths' in your classroom.
Breaking News: Foundation Ninja:
Not to leave out all our friends in Pre-Primary we have produced 'Foundation Ninja Maths'. All of the tasks are based upon the Australian Curriculum and there is also cute new ninja cards and a new ranking system. There is a different sheet for number bonds to 5, 10 and 20, as well as much more. If you want to motivate and invigorate your Pre-Primary students 'Foundation Ninja' is for you!
Ninja Maths Jnr:
Ninja Maths Jnr is now available for purchase! In Ninja Maths Jnr you will receive number bonds to 10 (addition and subtraction) including regular and missing part algorithms and near doubles/doubles. All of these question sheets are available with 50 or 100 questions. You receive new ninja cards, which have been developed in the colours of the ninja belt rankings. As well as a modified ninja ranking chart created especially for Ninja Maths Jnr. It is time to introduce lower primary to the Ninja Maths Revolution!
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ReplyDeleteAdam Martin Yr 6 classroom teacher:
"Ninja Maths is AMAZING! I have been running this program in my class for 3 years now and let me break it down for you. Every term I have seen my class go from an average of 60 to an average of 140, in just one term across every operation. I have had one student this term go from 19 questions in 3 minutes to 100. Another student has gone from 140 to 250. The kids love the cards and most of all to daily feedback of progress. You can also add in Ninja Mission and clans. I find it works best by singing the timestables the kids or playing repeating card games. I also set challenges for the kids at home. It also effects EVERY area of maths, because the kids begin to believe that progress is possible. You should seriously add every teacher on the planet to this page, as the results are ridiculous. I'm so thankful to Josh for creating this!"
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Sally-Anne Croft Yr 6 classroom teacher:
ReplyDelete"Have used Ninja Maths for a while now and it has proved itself as a fast track way to motivate any child, regardless of ability at the beginning, to learn and recall times tables with increasing speed in a short amount of time. Students love competing with themselves to rise up th Ninja ranks and all children know their times tables with quick fire recall in a significantly shorter time than any other methods I have used. Would thoroughly recommend Ninja to any teacher who wants excellent results in student acquisition of times tables."
Some inspirational words posted on the Ninja Maths Facebook page from year 7 teacher, Miss Mckenna...
ReplyDeleteNinja Maths...2 words that changed my classroom!
"Miss McKenna can we do Ninja Maths now?" "Miss McKenna, my daily writing today is about the Ninjas!" "Miss McKenna, my Nanna has knitted the class a ninja with various coloured belts so the highest ninja can keep it on their desk for the week!" "Miss McKenna, because you are not in Year 5 next year, is my child still going to be able to do Ninja Maths with their new teacher?" "Miss McKenna, we had a Ninja Maths family challenge last night after dinner...my dad got 220!"
Sound too good to be true? To be honest, I thought the same before implementing Ninja Maths in my classroom. I had quite a large number of girls and I thought to myself, no girl will be motivated by a ninja...nor will my boys be phased by getting a simple laminated card. HOW WRONG I WAS. Ninja maths became my tables testing on a Friday, my weekly homework, my behaviour plan, my rewards system, used with buddy classes, An "Are you smarter than a 5th grader?" parents challenge on school open nights and the list continues. My class not only completed their homework but enjoyed it as every Friday they would be tested and had the chance to gain more power and become a "higher Ninja"! As for the cards, the students displayed them with pride on their desk mats, even referring to each other as their ninja name. I had students dress up on book week as Ninjas due to the classroom environment that Ninja Maths created for us! I couldn't believe how a simple print out and laminated card could take over my room! Girls and boys were equally excited, motivated and inspired by these Ninjas.
Not only did it improve students mathematical confidence and enthusiasm towards learning, but their results improved in huge amounts also. The child who on Week 1 could only complete 16 times tables questions correctly in 3 minutes could by Week 8 complete 68 correctly. Students mental computation and instant recall skills were not only impressive but noticed by visiting teachers to the school...of which I can only thank Ninja Maths for.
Thanks Josh Lee and everyone involved in the creation of Ninja Maths. You are the ultimate NINJA HERO in not only my students eyes but in mine also. A real credit to the education industry! Well Done.
I love NinjaMaths!
ReplyDeleteNinja Maths is an easy tool for any teacher to use. The randomly generated question and answers make it possible for a teacher to create a Maths booklet in minutes. An individual Ninja Math session in your class takes about 5-10 mins (including marking), so it isn't too difficult to include into the weekly schedule. I do mine once a week on a Friday morning.
The results speak for themselves. At the beginning of the year my class averaged 37.5 questions correct after working for 3 mins on multiplication questions. 12 weeks later they averaged 95.1 questions correct - with some students answering 140+! The children thrive on the immediate feedback and as a teacher I love being able to record their progress and witness their success.
If you want an easy to setup, engaging program that actually produces results - then invest in this program!
How do I get to a ninga math worksheet
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ReplyDeleteJust head to www.ninjamaths.com.au and purchase from there.