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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...