Q. A while back you had multiplication tricks by 9’s in the Orange County Register. You were nice enough to e-mail me the information after I lost the column. I recently gave the information to my ...

What are you like at multiplications? Chances are if you're a mere mortal 2, 5s and 10s won't seem too taxing. But when it comes to figuring out what 42x21 is, you may wish somebody had shown you the ...

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 ...

In Mathemagic!, veteran math educator Lynda Colgan offers up some entertaining number-themed tricks that young readers will have hours of fun performing, and which require only simple props like dice ...

If you're down to learn something cool and quick this early in the year, a multiplication "trick" attributed to the Japanese may be your best bet. The graphic method, which makes use of sticks and ...

If there's one subject a lot of people really disliked at school (aside from P.E.) it was maths. Trying to work out all those equations, fractions and percentages gave me a stonking headache and I'm ...

Swapping numbers for lines can make the hardest mental arithmetic seem easy peasy and this is how to do it What are you like at multiplications? Chances are if you're a mere mortal 2, 5s and 10s won't ...

Japanese multiplication step one The blue line represents one ten and the three lines represent three ones. Now, draw the lines for the second number, in this case, the number 21. Again this should be ...