The 99 Club

The 99 Club is a mental-oral starter at Bosbury School 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 one opportunity 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, 3x, 5x and 10x tables

44 Club - 44 questions adding the 1x, 4x and 6x tables

55 Club - 55 questions adding the 7x and 8x tables

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!

As you can see, our children LOVE the challenge of the 99 Club, and even a few of our braver parents are willing to give it a go too during our Parent Partnership mornings!

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! Can you beat Mr. Ponter's 99 Club time of two minutes and 29 seconds...?

Some especially skilled mathematicians at Bosbury are even making it on to the newly-introduced Bronze, Silver and even Gold Clubs which include over one hundred problems to complete in the five minutes, including some very tricky problems involving squares, square roots and cubed numbers! Gosh!

MAY 2021 UPDATE! You asked for it, and we listened! We are pleased to announce that the PLATINUM CLUB is now here to challenge only the most skilled of Bosbury mathematicians who have mastered the Gold Club! 

Bosbury's most gifted mental arithmetic maestros will now be facing their greatest challenge yet - 120 questions of exceptionally tricky teasers, introducing negative numbers, Roman numerals, BIDMAS, degrees in shapes, with even a spot of algebra thrown in as well! Yikes!

Who will be the first Bosbury School pupil to complete this monster of a maths challenge in under five minutes?

Good luck, and keep practising! 

Click on the icons below to download your 99 Club practice sheets!

  11 Club               11 Club Answers

  22 Club               22 Club Answers

  33 Club               33 Club Answers

  44 Club               44 Club Answers

  55 Club               55 Club Answers

  66 Club               66 Club Answers

  77 Club               77 Club Answers

  88 Club               88 Club Answers

  99 Club               99 Club Answers

  Bronze Club       Bronze Club Answers

  Silver Club          Silver Club Answers

  Gold Club           Gold Club Answers

  Platinum Club    Platinum Club Answers