People tend to obsess over making computer software faster. You can, of course, just crank up the clock speed and add more processors, but often the most powerful way to make something faster is to ...

A new way to teach elementary school students multiplication is causing some controversy — but it may be easier than the method you probably learned in school. You probably learned multiplication ...

A set of guidelines adopted by 45 states this year may turn children into "little mathematicians" who don't know how to do actual math. A few weeks ago, I wrote an article for TheAtlantic.com ...

The method that we learn in school is a long multiplication method. But this method is very time consuming. SO let’s learn a much faster way to multiply a 2-digit number by 11. Step 1 - Write 3 and 6 ...

understand that the area of a rectangle is the result of a multiplication partition (break apart) a number using your understanding of place value recall times-tables up to 9 x 9 and multiply by ...

Mathematicians have proven the existence of a faster algorithm for multiplying large numbers, making multiplication and other ...

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 ...