Methods similar to this go back thousands of years, at least to the ancient Sumerians and Egyptians. But is this really the best way to multiply two big numbers together? Around 1956, the famous ...

break down (partition) a number using your understanding of place value recall times-tables up to 9 x 9 multiply by multiples of powers of ten Multiply each of these numbers by the 1-digit number and ...

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?

Mathematicians have reportedly discovered a new way of multiplying two numbers together. The new technique is for really large numbers, and if it passes a peer-review, could be the fastest possible ...

A decimal number is any number made up of the digits 0 to 9. This can include whole numbers and numbers less than 1. You can use a decimal point to show which digits are whole numbers and which are ...