Imagine you're a trader. You're on the trading floor, trying to price out if a 15-year bond issued by General Electric will generate the returns needed to placate your investors. Bad news, your ...

In real life there are many scenarios where we calculate percentages in our minds, for example the amount of discount on goods, tips at restaurants and many more. Have you wondered, if you could ...

Not everyone has an aptitude for maths. It's all too easy to forget even some of the basics once you've left school. Then there's the fact pretty much everyone has a calculator on their phone. All of ...

A mechanical engineer who goes by the username of @PinkPencilMath on TikTok has shared a nifty way to change the way you work out percentages. The video claims that 99 per cent of people aren't aware ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Math shouldn’t be harder than finding the last matching sock in your laundry. These clever shortcuts convert head-scratching ...

A video of the trick was posted onto the Facebook page Mathematics Tutorial, showing a tutor breaking down a series of problems for viewers. It has received a rave reaction online with many calling it ...

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 ...

Here at the Funny Money column, we are all about the social media these days, posting the column to all the biggies, such as Facebook and Twitter although, if it would sell more books, I’d gladly put ...

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A maths expert has shared a fraction trick which 99 per cent of people do not know - and it is guaranteed to make your life easier. @PinkPencilMath, a mechanical engineer, explains it best in her ...