The old way to multiply required a student to add the products of 36 x 4 and 36 x 2. The trick is to add that 0 at the end of the second product. Your fifth-grader asks you for help with the day's ...

A maths tutor on TikTok has gone viral after he revealed a hack for quickly and easily multiplying by nine. Brady Kelly (@bradyyourtutor) from Orlando, Florida, opens the video boldly saying: ...

Of all the numbers that you can be tasked with multiplying, the number nine always seems like one of the more tricky numbers to wrap your head around. Maybe it’s because it’s a larger number to work ...

Lynda Colgan receives funding from The Ministry of Education for the Province of Ontario and The Mathematics Knowledge Network (KNAER). Queen's University, Ontario provides funding as a founding ...

We’ve often noted that whether had ancient man known binary, we could all count to 1023 on our fingers. We thought about that while watching [Numberphile’s] latest video about “Russian” multiplication ...

All those long multiplication tables. Timed tests and “mad minutes” of worksheet problem-solving. Fluency drills. Somehow, getting kids to know their basic math facts continues to be at the heart of ...

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 ...

The Alberta government has bent to pressure from parents for curriculum changes and will require students to memorize their multiplication tables starting this fall, dealing a setback to the ...