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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The study will likely polarize the controversy over math teaching styles, in which fundamentalists are squared off against proponents of 'discovery-based' learning You can save this article by ...

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 ...

There was a time that I thought that understanding math was more useful than memorizing it. A certain amount of memorization is essential, especially for lower-level math. For example, you need to ...