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 ...

A TikTok video of a novel, ancient multiplication method has gone viral. While the user, jesslouisec, calls the method Japanese multiplication and some mathematicians say it’s “Vedic multiplying,” its ...

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 ...

When I first saw this Japanese multiplication method, I just couldn’t believe it. Then I tried it and it works perfectly, but still can’t understand how it works—or how anyone found this method. You ...

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 ...

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