Multiplication of two numbers is easy, right? At primary school we learn how to do long multiplication like this: Methods similar to this go back thousands of years, at least to the ancient Sumerians ...

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 ...

(playful music) (electronic gadgets clinking) - [Children] Math Mights! - Welcome 3rd grade Math Mights. I'm so excited you joined us today. My name is Ms. Askew and I can't wait to have fun learning ...

(bright music) - [Children] Math Mights. - Welcome, third grade Math Mights. I'm so excited you joined us today. My name is Ms. Askew, and I can't wait to have fun learning about math with you today.

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?

Methods similar to this go back thousands of years, at least to the ancient Sumerians and Egyptians. Around 1956, the famous Soviet mathematician Andrey Kolmogorov conjectured that this is the best ...

Japanese kids learn to multiply with a completely different method than the one kids in the US do. The Japanese math voodoo/magic is more of a visual technique where you draw lines and count the ...

While it's not as easy as tapping a few keys on a calculator, you can use Microsoft Excel to perform simple math, such as multiplying numbers. In order to do this, you'll need to learn Excel's ...