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 ...

Children will now have to know their 12 times tables by the age of nine, but it's not about rote learning, it's about revelling in the profusion of patterns, writes Rob Eastaway, maths writer and dad.

As part of our numeracy campaign, Rachel Carlyle looks at different ways to help her children get up to speed on their times tables . Go forth and multiply: Rachel and her children Joe and Anna play ...

Multiplication tables are a fundamental building block of mathematics, essential for everything from quick mental calculations to understanding more complex concepts later on. However, for many ...

Anita Ponsaing receives funding from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical & Statistical Frontiers (ACEMS). Most people will probably remember the times tables from primary school quizzes.

We still count eggs in dozens, but that's not the reason for learning the 'twelves' Children will now have to know their 12 times tables by the age of nine, but it's not about rote learning, it's ...