A TikTok video of a novel, ancient multiplication method has gone viral. While the user, jesslouisec, calls the method Japanese multiplication and some mathematicians say it’s “Vedic multiplying,” its ...

To do the method, begin by writing the two numbers you want to multiply at the top of two columns. In the left column, you progressively halve the number and take the integer floor of any “and a half” ...

understand that the area of a rectangle is the result of a multiplication partition (break apart) a number using your understanding of place value recall times-tables up to 9 x 9 and multiply by ...