Four thousand years ago, the Babylonians invented multiplication. Last month, mathematicians perfected it. On March 18, two researchers described the fastest method ever discovered for multiplying two ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Top 10 Tricks to Learn Multiplication Tables: Learning multiplication tables is one of the most important building blocks in building a child’s problem-solving ability. It helps with faster ...