Pupils will be marked up for using traditional multiplication and division in an overhaul of primary school maths being unveiled today. The changes will spell the end for fashionable teaching methods ...

Long division and long multiplication have been replaced in schools by chunking and gridding. While the new methods are meant to make maths easier, parents have been left scratching their heads, ...

It wasn’t so long ago that I wrote about how babies understand math — and I don’t intend for math to become the dominant theme for this blog. To illustrate how much simpler the new method is than the ...

Primary schools which fail to teach times tables by heart are condemning children to a lifetime struggling with numbers, inspectors have warned. A study published by Ofsted, the schools watchdog, says ...