Direct method

Direct method may refer to


 * Direct method (education) for learning a foreign language
 * Direct method (computational mathematics) as opposed to iterative method
 * Direct methods (crystallography) for estimating the phases of the Fourier transform of the scattering density from the corresponding magnitudes
 * Direct method in calculus of variations for constructing a proof of the existence of a minimizer for a given functional
 * Direct method (accounting) as opposed to indirect method for calculating cash flows