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 ...

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 ...

Pupils will be marked up for using traditional multiplication and division in an overhaul of primary school maths being unveiled today. The changes will spell the end for fashionable teaching methods ...