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 ...

People tend to obsess over making computer software faster. You can, of course, just crank up the clock speed and add more processors, but often the most powerful way to make something faster is to ...

In this video, we delve into the fascinating world of big number multiplication and explore how computers perform this task efficiently. Traditional multiplication has a time complexity of O(n^2), but ...

The method that we learn in school is a long multiplication method. But this method is very time consuming. SO let’s learn a much faster way to multiply a 2-digit number by 11. Step 1 - Write 3 and 6 ...

When I was 9, my family got a new computer. It was better than our old computer in every way save one: It couldn’t run my favorite racing game. What’s the point of a fancy new computer, I remember ...

A new way to teach elementary school students multiplication is causing some controversy — but it may be easier than the method you probably learned in school. You probably learned multiplication ...