Each of its 187 lines begins "Because": "Because multiplication is our favorite sport," "Because someone made our IDs out of corn," "Because we're still running from La Migra / Because we're still kissing the Pope's hand".
Rushing our children into chapter books is like teaching multiplication before our kids know how to count.
Now, unrestricted multiplication of our species has become a grave risk to the environment of our planet, and a significant cause of infant mortality and poverty.
Finally, we carry over some well-known properties of ordinary addition and multiplication to our definition.
Neither of them suspected that we learned our multiplication tables the way we learned a new song lyric.
(My brother and I spent many a beautiful summer's day standing stiffly in the living room, reciting multiplication tables, while our American friends played outside. To this day, I still do math in my head in Cantonese).
With this in mind, our multiplication factors, which were taken according to results from several other national studies, may actually either over- or underestimate the total rates of the different fractures due to osteoporosis in Austria.
While PN can be measured essentially with any non-destructive assay (NDA) technique capable of neutron detection, the measure of multiplication is, in our approach, determined by means of active interrogation using an instrument based on the Differential Die-Away technique (DDA).
Why remember our multiplication tables when we have a calculator?
Much like doing math, or reading, we fumbled through and practiced our multiplication tables and long division.
