Zach Banner slouched at a table during Pac-12 media days last month, across from USC teammate Adoree’ Jackson, and muttered to himself. Jackson, 5 feet 11, 185 pounds, was holding court ...

It plans to make schools ensure that, by the age of eight, children have memorised their times tables up to 12. “It is a recipe for causing the early onset of maths anxiety,” laments Prof Boaler.

Primary schools which fail to teach times tables by heart are condemning children to a lifetime struggling with numbers, inspectors have warned. By Juliehenry 13 November 2011 • 10:00am .

Lots of kids have trouble remembering their times tables. Learning them by rote can mean a child knows the numbers but not what they mean. Here’s how to get kids to remember times tables ...