This article reveals a simple and effective shortcut for multiplying numbers that end in 5. Perfect for students, it breaks down the trick for both single-digit and double-digit numbers ending in 5, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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?