The 99 Club is a mental-oral starter at Moorgate Primary Academy which aims to raise standards in maths through encouraging pupils to improve their mental calculations when attempting quick-fire multiplication and division problems.

The idea is that with repeated practice, the scheme should result in increased speed and confidence when tackling mental maths problems without relying on written workings and methods.

All pupils will begin at the 11 Club and work their way up, having up to three opportunities per week during the start of one of their maths lessons to answer all calculations at their current level unaided and within the allotted time of five minutes.

If all of the calculations are answered correctly twice in a row, the child moves up to the next level!

The initial 11 Club involves eleven problems which involve doubling numbers up to ten ie. 5+5, 8+8. The 22 Club then adds eleven further questions involving repeated addition for numbers from one to ten ie. 3+3+3+3, 5+5+5+5+5, while the 33 Club begins to introduce times tables.

Division facts are added by the time a pupil reaches the 77 Club, and in the 88 Club and 99 Club, pupils will be tackling a range of mixed multiplication and division problems.

The full breakdown of The 99 Club levels is as follows:

11 Club – 11 questions involving doubling numbers from one to ten

22 Club – 22 questions involving repeated addition of numbers from one to ten

33 Club – 33 questions introducing the 2x, 5x and 10x tables and related division facts

44 Club – 44 questions adding the 1x, 3x 4x and 8x tables

55 Club – 55 questions adding the 7x and 8x tables and related division facts

66 Club – 66 questions adding the 9x, 11x and 12x tables

77 Club – 77 questions consisting of inverse division facts

88 Club – 88 questions of mixed multiplication and division facts

99 Club – 99 questions of mixed multiplication and division facts

The ultimate challenge is to complete all 99 questions of the 99 Club unaided, with no errors and within five minutes!

The 99 Club is not designed for the Foundation Stage, but if staff feel that children are ready to attempt it, they will be given the opportunity to enter the 11 Club!

Sheets are available to download below for pupils to practise their level at home. You can support your child by finding out which level they are working at and helping them to practise the relevant times tables.

Staff and parents are of course welcome to have a go too!

Some especially skilled mathematicians at Moorgate are even making it on to the Bronze, Silver and even Gold Clubs which include over one hundred problems to complete in the time, including some very tricky maths involving squares, square roots and cubed numbers!

Good luck, and keep practising!

Miss Villers (Maths Leader)

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