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How can I help my child learn multiplication tables? A parent in Hong Kong worries that their home practice is ineffective

Many parents experience frustrations when trying to help their children learn the multiplication tables. It can be very challenging, especially if a child has the type of brain that does not retain ...
Mena FN

Nine-Year-Olds In England Sit Timed Multiplication Test But Using Times Tables Is About More Than Quick Recall

(MENAFN- The Conversation) 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 ...
Birmingham Mail

Times tables tests are being rolled out for primary schools - here's how it'll affect your child

Thousands of primary school children are to take a new times tables check this spring as part of trials of the Government test. Ministers confirmed plans to bring in the multiplication check - which ...
Huffington Post UK

Teachers Oppose Times Tables Tests In Year 4: 'This Will Increase Stress For Kids'

The government has announced plans to have eight- and nine-year-olds sit mandatory times table tests and teaching unions have spoken out in opposition to the decision. Year 4 pupils across England ...
The Sun

Primary school children to sit compulsory times tables test for the first time in 75 years

Children from the age of eight will be expected to take the compulsory tests so they will know their tables up to 12 as part of a Government policy trial COMPULSORY times tables tests will be ...