Children often struggle to memorize multiplication facts, as Hechinger reported, but research suggests it may be worth the effort. Cognitive scientists say that learning your times tables by heart ...

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 ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. A study published ...

ARE ON BOARD. IT’S A HOT TOPIC AMONG ADULTS IN MANCHESTER. THINK IT’S REDUNDANT, THINK IT’S A GREAT IDEA. SHOULD STUDENTS STILL LEARN CURSIVE AND MEMORIZE MULTIPLICATION TABLES? I MEAN, THINK THAT’S ...

Lynda Colgan receives funding from The Ministry of Education for the Province of Ontario and The Mathematics Knowledge Network (KNAER). Queen's University, Ontario provides funding as a founding ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...

The earliest multiplication formulas on record have been discovered on bamboo slips from the Warring States period (475BC-221BC) at a tomb site in Central China's Hubei Province, pushing the history ...

THESE tables aim at popularising logarithms. Like other four-figure tables they give the logarithms of numbers from 1000 to 9999. While the ordinary tables give these in one opening of two pages by ...

Q: How much is 230 times 10? A: The number of years humans have been calculating with decimals. A crack team of scholars in Beijing learned this last year when they solved a 23-centuries-old puzzle.