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 ...

Often, gardeners like to propagate a particular plant that they really like. Layering is an easy way to multiply favorite plants. The principle behind this propagation process is to encourage new root ...

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 ...

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 ...

This Design Idea presents a method for fast integer multiplying and multiplying by fractions. What can you do when you lack access to a hardware multiplier or MAC (multiply/accumulate) function and ...

These days, large language models can handle increasingly complex tasks, writing complex code and engaging in sophisticated ...

When you multiply decimals by integers (whole numbers), you can use everything you already know about multiplying multi-digit numbers. You can use written or mental methods to multiply decimals by ...

This summer, battle lines were drawn over a simple math problem: 8 ÷ 2(2 + 2) = ? If you divide 8 by 2 first, you get 16, but if you multiply 2 by (2 + 2) first, you get 1. So, which answer is right?

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 ...

To do the method, begin by writing the two numbers you want to multiply at the top of two columns. In the left column, you progressively halve the number and take the integer floor of any “and a half” ...