It's time to face facts: Teaching multiplication tables for automaticity and understanding
Thinking Deeply about Primary Education
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Is There a Need for Formal Written Algorithms?
I think by the end of primary school, we can definitely do that. You don't know what numbers you're going to encounter when you're an adult. Save percentages, for instance, when VATs be 17 and a half%. Maybe they'll go back to 17 and ahalf percent. We need more security with parents because I think with phonics,. you know, you get parents who come in and say, but my child can already read. If we had that for times tables and number bonds and just say, well, this iswhat we were to. This is the curriculum. And I think we might feel a little bit more comfortable... But it's not good enough for a
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