Japanese Multiplication Techniques

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.

Japanese multiplication techniques. Japanese method is one of the easiest method of multiplication where we draw lines instead of numbers for multiplication we get result without doing calculation. Each cluster of intersections corresponds to one of the four smaller products that go into multiplying two numbers for instance the left cluster 3 1 is what gets you the 300 or 3 hundreds. The japanese multiplication method is really just a visual way of representing those four steps. Each cluster of intersections corresponds to one of the four smaller products that go into multiplying two numbers for instance the left cluster 3 1 is what gets you the 300 or 3 hundreds.

Here is a fun way for kids to play with math. Teach them how to use japanese multiplication method. The japanese multiplication method is really just a visual way of representing those four steps.