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 ...

Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, D-Bronx, speaks on the Assembly floor in March. It’s been a while since some school districts have used old-school multiplication tables. Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, ...

A key part—though surely not the only part—of early-grades math is ensuring students get the basic arithmetic functions down and, beyond that, making sure they’re able to swiftly and automatically ...

Could it be that the nation's large fraction of students lacking math proficiency is caused by significant numbers of students not having their multiplication tables memorized? In a California K-12 ...

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 ...