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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Do you frequently feel that multiplication is difficult or time-consuming? Multiplication speed can significantly increase your confidence in arithmetic, whether you're doing problems in class or ...

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 ...

Back in primary school when we were learning how to multiply two, multi-digit numbers by hand, our teacher showed us a little trick to verify that we had the correct result calculated. I was impressed ...

Your youngster can learn that multiplication is actually just a method of repeatedly adding multiple groups of the same number by using objects like blocks and small toys.

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 ...

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 ...