CHANDIGARH: To improve computational skills of schoolchildren, Punjab’s State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) is resorting to the rote. While directing all government schools to ...

Sitting on a headmaster’s chair was something that 11-year-old S Janani of class V had only dreamed about. But on Wednesday, she was not only occupying the chair for an hour but was also functioning ...

Teachers may be forced to abandon traditional methods of teaching primary school mathematics, where pupils’ learning progress is measured by ability to recite multiplication tables and memorise other ...

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 ...

LUCKNOW: Chiragh, a student of grade 8 has set a new record of reciting multiplication table of up to 20 crore. Hailing from Uttar Pradesh’s Saharanpur district, the child is known as the ‘wonder kid’ ...

According to Cowan, conceptual knowledge of principles was found to be superior in solving simple calculations than learning facts and memorising tables. However, most primary school syllabuses in ...