Students in some local elementary schools are learning a completely different way of doing multiplication. It’s a technique that many parents can’t understand. It’s called lattice multiplication. The ...

Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...

A viral TikTok video shows an old, unique way to multiply using sticks. The origins of the multiplication method aren't clear. It may come from China, Japan, or somewhere else. Whatever the roots, ...

We’ve often noted that whether had ancient man known binary, we could all count to 1023 on our fingers. We thought about that while watching [Numberphile’s] latest video about “Russian” multiplication ...

A set of guidelines adopted by 45 states this year may turn children into "little mathematicians" who don't know how to do actual math. A few weeks ago, I wrote an article for TheAtlantic.com ...

Short multiplication close short multiplicationa method of setting out working in columns to calculate a multiplication. is a method using columns to set out and calculate a multiplication. Short ...