You might be confused about the Common Core, but this fourth grader isn't. Watch Savanna Burris of Meadow Homes Elementary in Concord, California breaks down the "box method" of multiplication — in ...

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If you compare the United States to other nations, experts will tell you that American children are not hooked on math. To cure what ails the student body, enter the Common Core standards. One aspect ...

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 ...

A set of guidelines adopted by 45 states this year may turn children into "little mathematicians" who don't know how to do actual math. A few weeks ago, I wrote an article for TheAtlantic.com ...

Short multiplication close short multiplicationa method of setting out working in columns to calculate a multiplication. is a method using columns to set out and calculate a multiplication. Short ...

understand that the area of a rectangle is the result of a multiplication partition (break apart) a number using your understanding of place value recall times-tables up to 9 x 9 and multiply by ...