Standards in schools continue to rise as more primary aged children are learning their times tables and boosting their future maths skills, new data reveals today (Thursday 23 November). Overall attainment rose among all eligible children with an average score of 20 out of 25 marks for those who took the check. “Mastering times tables by age 9 will make sure children can tackle more complex maths later on in life as well as help them with everyday adult activities. “That is why it’s so exciting that these checks show more children are learning their times tables in primary schools alongside our phonics screening check which has seen an increase in results since last year. The mastering number programme, which aims to support children in early primary school master the basics of arithmetic, is also expanding to 8,000 primary schools by 2024.

Source: The Times November 23, 2023 16:11 UTC