Visual Multiplication

 I saw a video on Buzzfeed about how to multiply but in a different way, the visual way. I think that Asian people are more familiar of this way but i don't know how and who discovered this method. An example of this method is the next pic, trying to multiply 1132*18. This method says that you have to design as many lines as the digits of the first number say in one direction and then vertically put the other lines of the digits. They have to be apart of its digit lines. Then you simply divide the lines into parts. After that you count the mergers of the lines, the points that they connect.

Now how it works...

 The method works because the number of lines are like placeholders (at powers of 10: 1, 10, 100, etc.), and the number of dots at each intersection is a product of the number of lines. You are then summing up all the products that are coefficients of the same power of 10. They are many methods of multiplying. This is an example of how we can see math tangible in real form.