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 ...

Back in primary school when we were learning how to multiply two, multi-digit numbers by hand, our teacher showed us a little trick to verify that we had the correct result calculated. I was impressed ...

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Forget the traditional, cumbersome method and use this trick: to multiply a number by 5, divide by 2, and move the decimal point one decimal place to the right. SO, if, say, you had the number 8,600 ...

If there's one subject a lot of people really disliked at school (aside from P.E.) it was maths. Trying to work out all those equations, fractions and percentages gave me a stonking headache and I'm ...