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Vedic Math Puzzle: A Vedic math puzzle is a mathematical problem or equation that utilizes techniques from Vedic mathematics, an ancient Indian system, to find solutions in a quicker and more ...

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 ...

Unless you do it in your day to day job, math can be very easy to avoid once you graduate from school. Suddenly those long, complicated equations that your math teacher swore would be trivial are so ...

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 ...

An equation is a mathematical statement showing that two expressions are equal. The two expressions are linked with an equals symbol (=). The unknown variable (often the letter \(x\)) can take any ...

Grade school math students are likely familiar with teachers admonishing them not to just guess the answer to a problem. But a new proof establishes that, in fact, the right kind of guessing is ...