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You probably haven’t had to do longhand math in years, but you do mental math every day. Or maybe you google math problems ten times a day, because you’ve forgotten how to do any math beyond your ...

It turns out, your school teacher was right. You need math on a regular basis. While most people won't typically have need of orthogonal trajectories, here are some of the most vital math shortcuts ...

Math shouldn’t be harder than finding the last matching sock in your laundry. These clever shortcuts convert head-scratching problems into quick mental wins. You’ll conquer calculations faster than ...

Struggling with mental math? Students from class 6 to 10 now have a clever way to simplify tricky multiplication problems. The “doubling square” method turns large or complex calculations into quick, ...

A different kind of jet-lag mobile app released today by mathematicians reveals previously unknown shortcuts that can help travelers snap their internal clocks to new time zones as efficiently as ...