Spaced repetition for learning times tables

Repeated answers are not always durable answers

Answering the same fact several times in a row can become easy because it is still active in short-term memory. That smooth final answer does not prove the learner will retrieve it tomorrow or next week.

A later review asks a more useful question: can the learner reconstruct the answer after attention has moved elsewhere? Times Wizard records evidence for each fact and schedules future retrieval instead of treating one successful drill as permanent mastery.

Each retrieval form has its own evidence

Knowing seven times eight equals fifty-six does not automatically make seven times what equals fifty-six or fifty-six divided by seven equally fluent. Times Wizard practises product, missing-factor, and division prompts separately while keeping them connected to the same fact.

What Recall means

Recall is an estimate based on the learner’s recorded answers and the time since review. It can fall as evidence becomes stale. That is deliberate: the score describes what the current evidence supports rather than preserving an old high-water mark.

The estimate guides practice; it is not a diagnosis, school grade, or guarantee of future performance. Parents and teachers should combine it with observation of the learner’s confidence and understanding.