This is regarding the May 5 Generation Z(eal) column “Young Americans are bad at math and it’s a growing problem.” In 1999, my wife and I were at our fifth grade child’s parent-teacher conference at a ...

CONCORD, N.H. (CBS/AP) — Senators have passed a bill requiring public schools to continue teaching cursive and multiplication tables. The bill is aimed at making sure schools maintain those skills as ...

Your youngster can learn that multiplication is actually just a method of repeatedly adding multiple groups of the same number by using objects like blocks and small toys.

Some kids are computer kids, and some aren’t. I hear about the latter and I find it hard to believe. In this house, the concept is extraordinarily foreign. Our own 8-year-old is regulated by a timer ...

John Bald is a former Ofsted inspector and has written two books on the history of writing and spelling. He is Chairman of the Conservative Education Society. We like to think that information travels ...

Synchronised voices of students memorising multiplication tables will mark the morning assembly and the concluding minutes at the schools from now onwards. The revival of the elapsed practice has been ...