Times table tests should be banned in schools because children are being putt off maths from a very early age, a leading academic has said. "we should seriously think about whether it is worth risking ...

All children will be expected to know their full times tables by the time they finish primary school, under new plans unveiled by Education Secretary Nicky Morgan. New tests will examine ...

Teachers should ban times tables tests to stop children developing a 'crippling' fear of making mistakes, according to a leading professor. Jo Boaler, professor of mathematics education at Stanford ...

You’d be forgiven for thinking that today’s announcement from the Education Secretary – that all pupils aged 11 will sit a times table test – sounds familiar. One year ago Nicky Morgan announced the ...

Despite it being a big part of our school life many people struggle with maths in their adult life. Whether you constantly need a calculator or use all your fingers and toes to work out a sum, it is ...

You have to feel for Nick Gibb. The schools minister, appearing on British television to promote a new test to find out whether eight and nine-year-olds know their times tables, was asked by the ...

Multiplication is a "very important" part of a child's maths knowledge, Nick Gibb said, and plans for a test were part of the Conservatives' election manifesto in 2015. Proposals to test 11-year-olds ...

Maths is a language and if you take numbers out of our lives, everything stops. You cannot design anything, you cannot build anything, you cannot make anything, you cannot have an economic structure, ...

07:16, Mon, Jan 4, 2016 Updated: 07:34, Mon, Jan 4, 2016 Youngsters will be examined on their multiplication skills on a computer against the clock when they leave primary school, Education Secretary ...

California's roughly 6million public school students may soon no longer be instructed to memorize their times tables following the approval of a new version of the state's Mathematics Curriculum ...