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Sunday, May 18, 2014

Cross-hatch Multiplication

Cross-hatch multiplication is great for children to learn to get a deep rooted understanding of multiplication. Here's a ScienceDump article all about it:

How to multiply numbers by drawing lines

Mathematician and game theorist Presh Talwalkar demonstrates how to multiply numbers using straight lines on a piece of paper. This "trick" is rumored to be one of the ways Japanese students learn to multiply, and it will work with any two numbers.

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