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 ...

Children in Doncaster who receive support for special educational needs are still performing worse than their peers at their ...

Schools minister Nick Gibb refused to do a times table test on live television this morning as he announced a policy for tougher multiplication tests for primary school children. Mr Gibb appeared on ...

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 ...