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 ...

As part of our numeracy campaign, Rachel Carlyle looks at different ways to help her children get up to speed on their times tables . Go forth and multiply: Rachel and her children Joe and Anna play ...

Learning multiplication tables from 2 to 20 can be fun and fast! This article provides a 5-day step-by-step plan using engaging tricks and smart strategies designed specifically for children. Discover ...

Children will now have to know their 12 times tables by the age of nine, but it's not about rote learning, it's about revelling in the profusion of patterns, writes Rob Eastaway, maths writer and dad.

Learn all about the 5 times table and find out about multiples of 5. The 10 times table Discover the 10 times tables and try this quiz. Repeated addition and multiplication Learn about repeated ...

Most people will probably remember the times tables from primary school quizzes. There might be patterns in some of them (the simple doubling of the 2 times table) but others you just learnt by rote.

From a few fragments out of a collection of 23-century-old bamboo strips, historians have pieced together what they say is the world's oldest example of a multiplication table in base 10. Five years ...