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, Nick Gibb MP ...

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. Kids will be tested before ...

New primary school tests to measure pupils’ times tables skills have been branded a waste of time by head teachers. In a survey, 94 per cent of those who took part in a pilot scheme said the ...

And while the Government has now announced plans to test all 11-year-olds on their times tables before they leave primary school, I actually think the tests should start at a much younger age ...

Times tables tests were introduced by the Conservative government in 2018. Nick Gibb, who was schools minister at the time, said the tests meant a new generation would again be able to recite ...

Proposals to test 11-year-olds in England on their times tables from this year were first announced by then education secretary Nicky Morgan in January 2016. But the move was later put on hold ...

Children in Oxfordshire have improved their basic multiplication skills, new figures show. Last year was the second time every Year 4 pupil was required to complete a standard times tables test ...