Short multiplication close short multiplicationa method of setting out working in columns to calculate a multiplication. is a method using columns to set out and calculate a multiplication. Short ...

Students in some local elementary schools are learning a completely different way of doing multiplication. It’s a technique that many parents can’t understand. It’s called lattice multiplication. The ...

Swapping numbers for lines can make the hardest mental arithmetic seem easy peasy and this is how to do it What are you like at multiplications? Chances are if you're a mere mortal 2, 5s and 10s won't ...

John Napier was a Scottish physicist, mathematician, and astronomer who usually gets the credit for inventing logarithms. But his contributions to simplifying mathematics and building shorthand ...

We’ve often noted that whether had ancient man known binary, we could all count to 1023 on our fingers. We thought about that while watching [Numberphile’s] latest video about “Russian” multiplication ...

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 ...