Mathematics education is in crisis: A third of all schoolchildren end up in remedial math courses, and the level of interest in the subject is at an all-time low. This is a result, in part, of schools ...

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to ...

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 ...

Despite it being a big part of our school life many people struggle with maths in their adult life. Whether you constantly need a calculator or use all your fingers and toes to work out a sum, it is ...

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 ...

2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 and so on are all multiples of 2. Multiples of 2 always end with an even number. These numbers are all in the 2 times table. Knowing your times tables is really helpful with mental ...