Sentences with phrase «arithmetic which»

MATHS FOUNDATION covers the whole algebra topics and arithmetic which includes INTEGERS, FRACTIONS, RATIO and so...

«There is probably no single process in the whole realm of arithmetic which is put to such constant use in the workaday world as the multiplication of money.»

The attack does not shift the UK parliamentary arithmetic which is stopping the Government putting to the Commons its wish to extend RAF airstrikes to Syria.

In 2010 it was the electoral arithmetic which made a Tory - Liberal coalition the only realistic option.

Not exact matches

The office chief told him there were concerns about his problem - solving, which is like telling a mathematician there are worries about his arithmetic.

Which does sound excessive, and the government hasn't disputed Poilievre's arithmetic.

For months, some of our internal strength measures have favored secondary stocks, indicating comparatively favorable action in indices such as the Russell 2000 and the Value Line Arithmetic average (which is not weighted by capitalization, so it reflects broad action).

The basic arithmetic is then: 1.3 x 0.5 = 0.65, which would still leave the S&P 500 35 % lower by 2020.

Judea Pearl likes to distinguish between «Simpson's reversal», which is the indisputable arithmetic fact that, say, 2/3 + 5/9 is not equal to 7/12, and «Simpson's surprise», which is the mistaken causal interpretation of this fact (that's the paradox part.)

That statement - which is simply a matter of arithmetic - is guaranteed to bring accusations of «class warfare.»

While the conversion of numerology to arithmetic was essential for the rise of modern science, historiography and mathematics, in which numbers had to be neutralized and emptied of any symbolic suggestion in order to be utilized, the result is that numerological symbols are reduced to signs.

Whitehead then identifies the leading characteristic of mathematics, not just of arithmetic, as that subject which «deals with properties and ideas which are applicable to things just because they are things, and apart from any particular feelings, or emotions, or sensations, in any way connected with them» (IM 2 - 3).

There is no set, finite or infinite, of well defined axioms from which all the true theorems of arithmetic follow.

Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem entails that there can not exist any well defined set of axioms from which all the true theorems of arithmetic can be derived.

A first chapter considers how the medieval quadrivium of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy and music became separated from the study of philosophy and theology, as if the quadrivium was an end in itself rather than the way in which a person was made ready for the study of philosophy and theology.

The four headings were music, astronomy, arithmetic and geometry; and there were other studies which lay outside those formally required.

A minority of cultivated men (and a few women) went on from grammar to rhetoric, to the «encyclical studies» which included arithmetic, music and other «liberal arts», and some ventured into philosophy.

Prairie Moon Waldorf School offers a rich and comprehensive academic program which includes English based on world literature, myths, and legends; history that is chronological and inclusive of the world's great civilizations; science that surveys geography, astronomy, meteorology, physical and life sciences; and mathematics that develops competence in arithmetic, algebra, and geometry.

Set up shop with this Wooden Cash Register (Magic Cabin — $ 65), which rings when you open it and encourages young children to practice arithmetic.

Indeed, I argue that the dual outcomes of last year's independence referendum of devo - max and greater success for the SNP in Westminster elections, coupled with the peculiar current polling arithmetic whereby no government can be formed without the backing of Scottish nationalists, leads to a situation in which the West Lothian Question is maximised to its greatest possible level of inequity between the UK's constituent nations.

Five - day - old domestic chicks presented with two sets of objects of different quantities disappearing behind two screens were able to successfully track which one hid the larger number by apparently performing simple arithmetic in the form of addition and subtraction.

To tap children's stress, the children completed a public speaking task and mental arithmetic task, which are known to evoke feelings of stress and raise the stress hormone cortisol, and simulates real - life stress in children's lives.

His teachers at Far Rockaway High School (also the alma mater of Bernie Madoff and Carl Icahn) nurtured his interests, and at age 15 he undertook a project that he called «Extension of Cauchy - Reimann and LaPlace Equations to Analytic Functions of a Quarternion Variable» — which characterized some of the mathematical properties of differentiable functions (smooth operations) in a four - dimensional arithmetic system.

The arithmetic is complex, but the consensus is that, to pose a health threat, cancers have to replicate at least 200 to 300 times, even though a clinically relevant tumor contains «only» a million million cells, which could be achieved by «only» 40 or so divisions if the originating cell had all the necessary mutations from the outset.

This can be especially detrimental in schools with large enrollments of minority and low - income populations, which may devote the majority of instructional time to arithmetic exercises and simple reading strategies, the researchers wrote.

Many pupils in this age bracket lack skills in mental arithmetic, which hampers the development of skills in more abstract areas such as algebra.

Using the prototype wearable interface, the researchers conducted a usability study in which 10 subjects spent about 15 minutes each customizing the arithmetic application to their own neurophysiology, then spent another 90 minutes using it to execute computations.

An international team of researchers, including Professor C. David Wright from the University of Exeter, have developed a nanoscale optical «abacus» — which uses light signals to perform arithmetic computations.

They fail to mention it also removes any linear trend, which is obvious from just a few steps of basic arithmetic.

These volunteers then underwent the same tests while participating in three minutes of mental arithmetic, in which the researchers had them sequentially subtract 7 starting with a random number.

Indeed, though it doesn't lean on a particular ideology, this is a fiercely political film in which the stakes of politics are the everyday lived experience: dollar bills exchanged between hands, a blank form waiting to be filled, or the aisle of a supermarket where shoppers do mental arithmetic to figure out what they can go without this week.

The authors distinguish two aspects of cognitive ability: crystallized knowledge, which comprises acquired knowledge such as vocabulary and arithmetic; and fluid cognitive skills, the abstract - reasoning capabilities such as the ability to recognize patterns and make extrapolations needed to solve novel problems independent of how much factual knowledge has been acquired.

Participants in the NLSY took the Armed Forces Qualification Test (AFQT), which measures word knowledge, paragraph comprehension, arithmetic reasoning, and mathematics knowledge.

So, if you put it all together it becomes quite huge, but you have from district level onwards estimates of basic reading, arithmetic and of course schooling that is then put together in the big aggregate report, which is called the ASER Report.

They envision a world in which technology provides a powerful means for building the fundamentals of reading, writing, and arithmetic.

Also available is the Maths Dice tournament kit, which contains all the required material to create a mental arithmetic competition for up to 18 pupils.

«Calculator use does not in general hinder students» skills in arithmetic,» the study, which reviews international research on maths teaching, says.

In the mental arithmetic test, a pre-recorded voice reads the questions, which have to be answered in a set time, so Malcolm suggests some simple techniques to help reduce the stress and to deal with what are in reality fairly straightforward questions.

For instance, building on work by McClellan and Staiger (1999) in rating hospital performance, we have proposed a simple technique for pooling information over time, which improves on a simple arithmetic mean by taking into account the amount of «signal» and «noise» in a given measure of performance.

«The major value of... educational games is that they afford a pleasant means of practice on materials... In the mastery of the fundamental combinations in arithmetic, the child needs a great deal of practice... These games, while furnishing the child with amusement or fun, provide a means by which the child can practice the combinations with a degree of interest... not commonly found in more traditional [methods].»

Learning objectives: Students will revise and complete questions from a variety of topics: Algebra Manipulation, Percentages, Ratios, Equations, Fractions, Simple Probability, Arithmetic Operations Work quickly and efficiently under a time limit, which is the main focus of this type of exam.

«There are over 160 statistical charts and tables which may be used for the revision of: • Basic arithmetic.

(The best example is early math, which was meant to be a major victory for traditionalists — master your arithmetic, kids!

Pack 2 with arithmetic starters which practise a skill linked to the reasoning and problem core solving tasks.

So we have schools that purchase books like Everyday Math, which eschews honest arithmetic in favor of fuzzy math and the overuse of calculators; Teachers College Writers Workshop, which downplays grammar but obsesses about the «process» of writing (a process that's not based in any research); and all manner of reading programs that fixate on «skills» while ignoring literature, history, science, and everything else that might make reading an enjoyable and enlightening experience (and that might actually prepare kids to understand what will be taught to them downstream).

These worksheets provide practice in the basic rules for the order in which arithmetic operations are performed.

Within the larger landscape of algebra, we focus here on an aspect of algebra that many mathematics educators refer to as algebraic reasoning (e.g., Kaput 1999), which includes using arithmetic for generalizing, working with patterns to describe functional relationships, and modeling as a way to formalizing generalizations.

Research released this January in The Journal of Neuroscience reveals, «the way in which the brain is organized for single digit arithmetic calculation predicts performance on more complex math skills.»

He dismisses Relay's capstone projects, which focus on applying student data to instruction, as «arithmetic» compared with the high - level research design and statistical analyses required in his graduate program.

All parents and those who have the care of children shall bring them up in some lawful and honest employment and instruct them or cause them to be instructed in reading, writing, spelling, English grammar, geography, arithmetic and United States history and in citizenship, including a study of the town, state and federal governments... each parent or other person having control of a child five years of age and over and under eighteen years of age shall cause such child to attend a public school regularly during the hours and terms the public school in the district in which such child resides is in session, unless such child is a high school graduate or the parent or person having control of such child is able to show that the child is elsewhere receiving equivalent instruction in the studies taught in the public schools.