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 questions like this. They ...

You learn your times tables in primary school ... To test your maths knowledge, here are 10 simple sums that every 11 year old will soon be required to know off by heart.

Kids will be taking tests for the first time using technology rather than traditional pen and paper after government plans for times tables tests at 11 were revealed.

Teachers should have the freedom to use time more productively rather than putting pupils through a times table test, writes Frances Mwale. By Frances Mwale 05 January 2016 • 1:47pm .

Times tables tests are to return to primary schools for the first time since 1944, the School Minister has confirmed. The first eleven-year-olds will sit exams in summer 2019, ...

If the tiniest mention of times tables sends shivers down your spine, then you might be thankful your school days are behind you. Primary school pupils will sit multiplication tests from next year ...

Introducing a times table test at 11 is not exactly revolutionary. Existing national tests taken by pupils at the end of Key State 2 already do include questions on times tables.

You have to feel for Nick Gibb. The schools minister, appearing on British television to promote a new test to find out whether eight and nine-year-olds know their times tables, was asked by the ...