Four thousand years ago, the Babylonians invented multiplication. Last month, mathematicians perfected it. On March 18, two researchers described the fastest method ever discovered for multiplying two ...

Multiplication is a fundamental skill in mathematics, but some number combinations can appear tricky. Imagine being able to quickly multiply numbers like 35 x 35 or 65 x 65 in your head, almost ...

Methods similar to this go back thousands of years, at least to the ancient Sumerians and Egyptians. Around 1956, the famous Soviet mathematician Andrey Kolmogorov conjectured that this is the best ...

You can solve a lot of multiplication calculations by working things out in your head. Knowing your times table facts is a great way to multiply smaller numbers in your head. However, there are also ...

Multiplication of two numbers is easy, right? At primary school we learn how to do long multiplication like this: Methods similar to this go back thousands of years, at least to the ancient Sumerians ...

An area model helps your child learn how to multiply two two-digit numbers! WSKG is here to help you help your child understand the basic concepts of the common core curriculum with our Good To Know ...

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 ...