Napier’s method of multiplication is a method used to multiply large numbers when you do not have a calculator. Draw a 2 by 2 grid to multiply a 2-digit number by another 2-digit number. Label the ...

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 Wappingers elementary students are multiplying up to 384-digit numbers in school. These students, who are in the district's math enrichment program, are getting creative with math theory to solve ...

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 ...

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 ...

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?

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Learn how to multiply and divide decimals by 100. Based on this video, see if you can work out how to ...