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

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 ...

Illinois Comptroller Leslie Munger flubbed a multiplication quiz at the Illinois State Fair last week after questioning her opponent’s math skills, the Chicago Tribune reported. During one of her two ...