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 ...

Number lines can help you see where a number is compared to another number. You can create a number line that goes up to any number. You can then look at the part of the number line that's the most ...

Most people will probably remember the times tables from primary school quizzes. There might be patterns in some of them (the simple doubling of the 2 times table) but others you just learnt by rote.

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 ...