WIRE — John Bald is a former Ofsted inspector. He is Vice-President of the Conservative Education Society. "We don't teach arithmetic. We teach mathematics," said the retired headmaster. "Mathematics is problem solving." Fine. There is more to life than page after page of sums. Still, as Stanislas Dehaene FRS showed in The Number Sense, mathematics grew historically,... This article Why Multiplication Matters was originally created by Converseer.
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