How many times do you hear children complaining when they have to learn tables – Why do I have to learn them?   This is the situation for many parents who are then at a loss to know how to answer it...

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...