It's possible to solve some multiplication problems in your head. But sometimes it can help to use other methods instead. These include using visual aids, such as an array or place counters, or by ...

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 ...

Multiplication and division are connected. Think about the times table facts you have been learning. 3 'multiplied by' 7 makes 21. 7 'times' 3 equals 21. The inverse operation is division. 21 'shared ...