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” ...

Forget the upcoming presidential election or Madonna's new movie. The next time you want to pick an argument with someone, tell them our country's schoolchildren should be using pocket calculators ...

Multiplying and dividing whole numbers by numbers greater than 0 and less than 1 can be broken into a whole number calculation followed by multiplying or dividing by a power of 10, for example 10, 100 ...

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?

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 ...

It's that time of the year again, when students have to make choices that will define their careers. To have many choices is wonderful but when the options are many, and all appear compelling, making ...

Pearland Independent School District’s latest Fund for Teachers grant recipients plan to multiply their training experience to benefit all K-6 math students district-wide. Thanks to a $6,128 grant, ...

Time to test your brain! Are you a puzzle person? Most of these hard math problems aren’t straightforward arithmetic. They challenge you to look at problems a different way, testing your logic and ...

Answer: 888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 1,000. This is the kind of math riddle you can work out with times tables, or by simple logic. First, get as close to 1,000 as you can (888). From there, it’s easy to ...