Try this ancient multiplication trick—halves and doubles, also called Egyptian or Russian math—where you repeatedly halve one ...

If you're down to learn something cool and quick this early in the year, a multiplication "trick" attributed to the Japanese may be your best bet. The graphic method, which makes use of sticks and ...

Back in primary school when we were learning how to multiply two, multi-digit numbers by hand, our teacher showed us a little trick to verify that we had the correct result calculated. I was impressed ...

THIS AIN'T YOUR FATHER'S MATH: Here's a bit of low-tech edtech that might just relieve some of the anxiety around multiplying double and triple digit numbers. The Magical Maths blog reports that the ...

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What are you like at multiplications? Chances are if you're a mere mortal 2, 5s and 10s won't seem too taxing. But when it comes to figuring out what 42x21 is, you may wish somebody had shown you the ...