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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Aine Fo

Children without English as a first language outperform peers in times tables

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Children who do not speak English as a first language outperformed their peers in maths skills, the first set of national data on children’s times tables has shown.

The newly-published multiplication table checks of more than 625,000 year four pupils in England also showed disadvantaged pupils had a lower average score than their counterparts.

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