"Multiplying-in-columns" is quite out of fashion. A 'grid' or 'boxes' method is surely now taught to/used by a majority of students in the UK. Long multiplicati

"Multiplying-in-columns" is quite out of fashion. A 'grid' or 'boxes' method is surely now taught to/used by a majority of students in the UK. Long multiplication is not considered best practice and many students don't see it. This is thankfully for the better, as weaker students are better able to follow the method and stronger students can extend more intuitively to general distributive methods (making mental arithmetic more convenient). In my opinion, this makes the 12 times table even more irrelevant. Links: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/maths/number/multiplicationdivisionrev1.shtml http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/maths/number/multi... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11258175 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11258175