Unlike Esa Helttula's other apps, which allow kids to practice specific skills through a no-nonsense kind of interface, Esa's latest app, for the iPad, gives kids a playground of sorts to play around ...

All those long multiplication tables. Timed tests and “mad minutes” of worksheet problem-solving. Fluency drills. Somehow, getting kids to know their basic math facts continues to be at the heart of ...

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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 ...

Primary schools which fail to teach times tables by heart are condemning children to a lifetime struggling with numbers, inspectors have warned. A study published by Ofsted, the schools watchdog, says ...

Knowing your multiplication facts is very useful, but what happens when the numbers you are multiplying are greater than those in your multiplication tables? You will need to calculate using a column ...

A key part—though surely not the only part—of early-grades math is ensuring students get the basic arithmetic functions down and, beyond that, making sure they’re able to swiftly and automatically ...

After its recent impressive brain-racking Building-Word Competition for students from various basic and secondary schools in ...