A simple finger trick for the 11 times table is helping secondary school students aged 12 to 16 improve mental arithmetic skills. By separating two-digit numbers, adding the digits, and inserting the ...

Mike Kenny didn’t intend to create an educational web app — he was just looking for a way to help students master their multiplication tables. In 2013, as a graduate student in the Vermont Mathematics ...

Unfortunately, people had some pretty horrific experiences. They revealed some of the cruelest, most disrespectful things their teachers ever did to them back in the day. Note: Some submissions ...

Using these flash cards in your classroom offers plenty of flexibility. You can use them in whole-class settings for quick-fire question rounds, in small-group activities or for individual practice.

It’s Bruno Reddy’s firm belief that if children fail to crack basic times tables in primary school, then tackling maths at higher levels is like trying to read without knowing how to decode. “It will ...

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 ...

Children often struggle to memorize multiplication facts, as Hechinger reported, but research suggests it may be worth the effort. Cognitive scientists say that learning your times tables by heart ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. A study published ...

Young students around the world struggle to memorize multiplication tables, but the effort pays off. Cognitive scientists say that learning 6 x 7 and 8 x 9 by heart frees up the brain’s working memory ...