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 ...

Thousands of eight and nine-year-olds in England's primary schools will take a new times tables check this spring. Some 7,250 pupils in 290 primaries, are expected to take part in the trials of the ...

How well do you know your times tables up to 12? Can you do better than an eight-year-old? Year 4 pupils in England will take part in a multiplication tables check in June. They will be asked 25 ...

Thousands of children are expected to take part, but the move was described as ‘hugely disappointing’ by one teaching union. Thousands of primary school children are to take a new times tables check ...