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 ...
When you multiply decimals by integers (whole numbers), you can use everything you already know about multiplying multi-digit numbers. You can use written or mental methods to multiply decimals by ...
Numberphile revived an ancient multiplication trick—halves and doubles—also called Egyptian or Russian math, where you repeatedly halve one number and double the other. After crossing out rows with ...