You might be confused about the Common Core, but this fourth grader isn't. Watch Savanna Burris of Meadow Homes Elementary in Concord, California breaks down the "box method" of multiplication ...

You probably learned multiplication through the longform method that involves "carrying" over different digits. These days, many elementary school students learn to multiply using the "box method ...

The area method of multiplication is also known as the grid or box method. To use this method successfully you need to be able to: understand that the area of a rectangle is the result of a ...

Consider the math problem 27 times 3, as a homework-helping nanny does in this YouTube video posted recently. She shows off the traditional method of just sort of multiplying it and carrying the two.

The method most children learn in school, long multiplication, involves many steps with separate products you have to note and recombine later.

Method 2 27 is broken down into 10, 10 and 7. The method of partitioning into tens, simplifies the multiplication further because to multiply successively by 10 is to simply move the digits one ...