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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What's seven times nine? Quick, you've got six seconds to answer. This June, over 600,000 children in England in year four, aged eight and nine, will be expected to answer questions like this. They ...

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 ...

Youngsters will be examined on their multiplication skills on a computer against the clock when they leave primary school, Education Secretary Nicky Morgan has announced. Results of the test, designed ...

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 ...

Schoolkids should be taught using an old-fashioned abacus if the Government decides to scrap times-tables tests, specialists have said. According to reports, the Labour party could bin traditional ...