Education Secretary Michael Gove claimed children have been "let down on the basics" by the current curriculum - and has proposed changes to teaching in England. Adam Fleming tested passengers at ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Professor Jo Boaler stirred up a storm last week with radical suggestions for tackling 'maths anxiety’ in schools. Peter Stanford reports Jo Boaler is professor of mathematics education at Stanford ...