Math tricks Archives - A Magical Homeschool

11MAR

Short Division Makes Math Easy

Note: This is an article that ran on my homeschooling column at Examiner around 2009 titled “Long Division Is So Last Century.” Last week a fellow homeschooling mother told me that her sons were struggling some days with long division. I cringed and admitted we had not even started on the subject at our house. […]

05JUL

Fun with math: Japanese multiplication

Here’s a fun way for kids to play with math — teach them how to do Japanese multiplication. This visual math trick lets kids use lines and their intersections to see how math works, and helps show that math and numbers can be fun. To multiply with this method, you simply draw diagonal lines to […]