Here’s where I start. All other things being equal (which they obviously aren’t) there is no detriment to learning times tables. How ever you learn them. By continuous practice, by chanting, by using an app. It’s all good. I know mine and I’m glad I do. The more that children know them the better off… Read More Testing Times
W The “times-tables to be tested” announcement is not exactly new. It was one of the elements contained in the (over) detailed Conservative Party Manifesto for the last election. Indeed, it is step number one. Also this is the announcement of the pilot, so there are plenty more opportunities for re-announcement. Expect that to happen.… Read More Foreseeable consequences
I’ve never taught young children to learn their times tables, but if I did, this is instinctively how I would probably approach it. For the sake of complete clarity, nothing I have written here is meant to suggest that this is not currently done, nor is it meant to suggest that it is the only… Read More Thirty Six
Distant Ramblings on the Horizon 