Low mathematics achievement is a persistent problem in the United States, and multiplication is a fundamental area in which many students manifest learning difficulties. This study examined the ...

You don’t need to know Fibonacci’s rabbit formula (fn = fn1 + fn2) to realize that the University of Victoria has a serious problem. Fibonacci was the 13th-century mathematician who posed the question ...

Multiply by 5 using the grouping of objects, counting by fives, and arrays. Explore the Multiply by 5 facts using the grouping of objects, counting by fives, and arrays. Compete against characters to ...

May 21 (UPI) --An 11-year-old Florida girl earned a Guinness World Record for mental math when she solved a 12-digit multiplication problem without a calculator, pen or paper. Sanaa Hiremath, who was ...

While Microsoft Word is designed primarily for text, it is possible to add mathematical formulas within a document. The multiplication function is one of the standard formulas available for Word ...

Once Sanaa Hiremath, 11, was home schooled, she found she could do math without writing problems down. She has a Guinness World Record, finishing a 12-digit multiplication problem in under 10 minutes.

Most people know just one way to multiply two large numbers by hand. Typically, they learned it in elementary school. They’re often surprised to find that there are a variety of ways to do ...

A key part—though surely not the only part—of early-grades math is ensuring students get the basic arithmetic functions down and, beyond that, making sure they’re able to swiftly and automatically ...

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?