Ever wanted to impress everyone by solving complex multiplication problems in your head, without needing a pencil or paper? It's not magic; it's mental math—a superpower you can learn! This article is ...

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 ...

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?

Multiply Any Number by 11 in Seconds: Having the appropriate strategies may make math enjoyable and simple! One subject in which students frequently struggle is multiplication, particularly when ...

Forget the upcoming presidential election or Madonna's new movie. The next time you want to pick an argument with someone, tell them our country's schoolchildren should be using pocket calculators ...

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A key part—though surely not the only part—of early-grades math is ensuring students get the basic arithmetic functions down and, beyond that, making sure they’re able to swiftly and automatically ...

It's that time of the year again, when students have to make choices that will define their careers. To have many choices is wonderful but when the options are many, and all appear compelling, making ...

Pearland Independent School District’s latest Fund for Teachers grant recipients plan to multiply their training experience to benefit all K-6 math students district-wide. Thanks to a $6,128 grant, ...