This Is No Surprise, Japan Has Done It Again By Simplifying Multiplication For Everyone

by N/A, 8 years ago | 1 min read

Multiplication tables are the thing of nightmares for children growing up all over the world. What is this mathematical concept that baffles brains into remembering how to combine numbers?! Surely, some of you reading this right now are getting a cold sweat upon remembering just how suffocating of a time that was in your adolescence. The math that goes into this, well, math is just brutal.

Sorry you missed out on your childhood, but be thankful your kids won't have to with this Japanese method.

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The method looks a little something like this:

Okay, sorry about that. That probably made your head hurt just as much as it did back in the day attempting to memorize your multiplication tables. We should've offered a little explanation into what's going on. Essentially a system of lines and dots according to the numbers in the multiplication problem solves it for you.

That probably still didn't make any sense, so rather than us trying to explain it, just watch this video of a person walking you through the steps.

Have you figured it out yet? Pretty simply in comparison right?!

If you're still completely lost (just like you were in elementary), and need some vocal guidance, let this man show you exactly how it's done. We promise by the end of it, you'll never need a calculator again.

Here's to this replacing the teaching of times tables for the rest of educational existence on Earth! If you're still distraught by the thought of doing math, even when made this easy, just go ahead and use a calculator–everyone has got one in their pocket these days anyway.