Most people will probably remember the times tables from primary school quizzes. There might be patterns in some of them (the simple doubling of the 2 times table) but others you just learnt by rote.

Young students around the world struggle to memorize multiplication tables, but the effort pays off. Cognitive scientists say that learning 6 x 7 and 8 x 9 by heart frees up the brain’s working memory ...

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Vishakan spends them turning vehicle registration numbers into multiplication problems. That fascination with numbers, first noticed when he was just three years old, has now earned him a place in the ...