California's roughly 6million public school students may soon no longer be instructed to memorize their times tables following the approval of a new version of the state's Mathematics Curriculum ...

Multiplication Tables: Learning multiplication tables is essential for excelling in mathematics. Students must commit these tables to memory to perform well in math-related tasks. While memorizing ...

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When children learn the multiplication table, memorize their phone numbers or write down words on spelling tests, they’ve used rote learning. Yet in many education circles, rote learning is seen as ...

CONCORD, N.H. (CBS/AP) — Senators have passed a bill requiring public schools to continue teaching cursive and multiplication tables. The bill is aimed at making sure schools maintain those skills as ...

Discovery math has been dealt another blow, with Ontario's Education Minister departing from her province's curriculum guidelines and declaring that she expects school children to have a more solid ...