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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, ...

Sometimes you will have to substitute a number into an expression with a square number. Remember when a number is squared it is multiplied by itself. This is straightforward when you have a positive ...