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<p>To help ensure that children can recall their times tables fluently by the time
they leave primary school, a new national multiplication tables check will be introduced
from the 2019/20 academic year onwards. This check will be delivered via a short,
onscreen assessment and will be administered by schools to pupils at the end of year
4.</p><p> </p><p>In order to implement the check, the Department is proposing to amend
the Education (National Curriculum) (key stage 2 assessment arrangements) Order 2003.
The Department will also consider making further consequential amendments to related
statutory instruments before the check is first administered on a statutory basis
in the summer of 2020.</p>
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