Do you frequently feel that multiplication is difficult or time-consuming? Multiplication speed can significantly increase your confidence in arithmetic, whether you're doing problems in class or ...

Numberphile revived an ancient multiplication trick—halves and doubles—also called Egyptian or Russian math, where you repeatedly halve one number and double the other. After crossing out rows with ...

Most people break out in a cold sweat when they see fractions. There's something about those little lines and numbers stacked on top of each other that makes even confident adults feel like they're ...

Ah, math. It’s why I became an English major. But now math is spinning back around and haunting me in the form of my fifth grader. Last night, I found myself dealing with how to multiply fractions as ...

Here are a few of the many math tricks that you can use to solve problems without a calculator. With a little practice, you can learn to solve many different types of problems quickly and easily.

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 ...