Do you say learn table or learn times tables. Which would you say is right?   Do you say to your children – “you need to learn the 4x table” or do you say “you need to learn your 4x tables”?   For...

Journalist and best selling author Malcolm Gladwell has a lesson that will help your children progress better in maths and times tables. My favorite Gladwell book is 'Outliers' which focuses on wha...

Many people are aware of the fear and anxiety that is present for many people with public speaking. Not so many will be aware of the anxiety and discomfort that hundreds and thousand of adults and chi...

If you look in books and very often on the net you will find scores of maths tricks that say they help children learn tables. I encourage things that make tables easier and fun, but sometimes these t...

No doubt you will have heard of the sorts of people who are maths prodigies, their performance outstripping the rest of us by miles. One such prodigy is Shakuntala Devi.   She has travelled the worl...

For millennia there has been the need to learn times tables. Ian Stewart of the University of Warwick says that ancient civilizations used them including the Babylonians who put them on clay tablets. ...

The school curriculum has increased and this has also affected mathematics. This has led to the time teachers can give to teaching times tables becoming less and less. This means that the parent has...

Some multiplication facts are also tricks that may help students in the quest for faster factoring without memorization for the numbers one through twelve. The easiest multiplication rule to remember...

An easier insight into how problems are factored can be shown through the four properties of multiplication.   The word commute, meaning to move from place to place, is in the prefix of the word com...

One of the basic building blocks of maths is multiplication. Learning the times tables is a vital part of arithmetic. As with other subjects some children might take easily to learning their multiplic...