KASHIHARA, Nara -- A wooden tablet unearthed in 2001 from the ruins of Japan's late seventh to early eighth century capital Fujiwara-kyo here was part of a multiplication table chart used by ...

In this KS2 Maths article you'll explore how to divide and multiply by 0, 1, 10 and 100. We also have KS2 Maths videos, a quiz and lots of examples.

The 2,300-year-old matrix is the world's oldest decimal multiplication table. From a few fragments out of a collection of 23-century-old bamboo strips, historians have pieced together what they ...