Get out your timer and number two pencil to see if your arithmetic skills from grade school are still intact.

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 ...

Young students around the world struggle to memorize multiplication tables, but the effort pays off. Cognitive scientists say that learning 6 x 7 and 8 x 9 by heart frees up the brain’s working memory ...

You can solve a lot of multiplication calculations by working things out in your head. Knowing your times table facts is a great way to multiply smaller numbers in your head. However, there are also ...