In today’s post, we are going to review the multiplication tables (times tables) with a trick so they don’t seem so long. Are you ready? Let’s get started! How Can We Learn Multiplication Tables Quickly? Have you noticed that all multiplication tables repeat numbers? Here’s an example: In the 1 times table, we have 1 […]

In this post, we’re going to decipher an answer’s sign by looking at the sign of a number’s power. To start off, let’s look at an example of what happens when the factor’s signs mingle. As we already know, we multiply the factors normally and later, we add the appropriate sign to the answer. Let’s […]

In this post, we will learn the order that needs to be followed to solve combined operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. The combined operations cannot be performed at random, an order must be followed. Step 1: Perform operations that are within parenthesis. For example: 3 x (2 + 4). First, we do the operation […]

In this post, you’ll learn another simpler, quicker and more efficient way to multiply these kinds of problems by applying the distributive property in multiplication. Surely, you all know how to calculate this multiplication problem, 23 x 4, using the multiplication algorithm: Or maybe you know how to do it mentally. 23 times 4 is […]

We’ve written plenty of posts about division on the Smartick blog. The division algorithm, sometimes, can be difficult or a pretty long-winded way of calculating, especially if the divisor contains 2 or more digits. Understanding division with the help of geometric visualization In this post, we’re going to view division as the opposite operation to […]