ARE ON BOARD. IT’S A HOT TOPIC AMONG ADULTS IN MANCHESTER. THINK IT’S REDUNDANT, THINK IT’S A GREAT IDEA. SHOULD STUDENTS STILL LEARN CURSIVE AND MEMORIZE MULTIPLICATION TABLES? I MEAN, THINK THAT’S ...

Mathematicians love a good puzzle. Even something as abstract as multiplying matrices (two-dimensional tables of numbers) can feel like a game when you try to find the most efficient way to do it.

A recent paper set the fastest record for multiplying two matrices. But it also marks the end of the line for a method researchers have relied on for decades to make improvements. For computer ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. A study published ...

A TikTok video of a novel, ancient multiplication method has gone viral. While the user, jesslouisec, calls the method Japanese multiplication and some mathematicians say it’s “Vedic multiplying,” its ...