Sentences with phrase «mental calculations»

In the era of calculators, I'll admit it, it might take me a few seconds to adjust to doing mental calculations.

It was made for a bottom set year 8 who are struggling with basic mental calculations and also finding and discussing strategies for solving problems.

The more comfortable we get, the more we start to make mental calculations about situations, like being in a job we hate or in a relationship that has run its course.

A tiny minority of people are born with the ability to do seemingly amazing mental calculations.

The astonishing implication is that our bodies, through perception and action, can actually replace the need for complex mental calculations.

You know that feeling when you get to the cash register and the total is less than your rough mental calculation?

Test your accuracy in performing simple mental calculations, and then invite your colleagues and your institution for a discussion.

This paper should be completed without a calculator to improve mental calculation.

The book is a fun learning for students (10 +), parents, teachers, and math lovers for learning mental calculation tricks based on observations.

But a basic mental calculation would tell you that even after accounting for compounding effects, it's going to take too long a time.

At Wyvern College we have run a year - long research study to assess the impact of using Numeracy Ninjas on the fluency of our 470 + Key Stage 3 students» mental calculation strategies, timestables and key skills required to successfully access the GCSE Maths curriculum.

In addition, they administer active stress tests that involve mental calculations, monitoring blood pressure before and after.

Then half the group spent 10 sessions estimating large quantities of dots in arrays and performing mental calculations on them; a control group had no such practice.

Renner's Cross is a conflicted hero built to take advantage of the «Hurt Locker» star's best qualities as an actor - his default intensity, the way he conveys that complicated mental calculations are taking place under cover of watchful stillness, even underwater.

Help students develop mental calculation and counting.

They find their sleep disturbed by worry and they spend their waking hours performing endless mental calculations trying to figure out how... Read more»

So when I go comparing award charts, my easy mental calculation is to deduct 25 % Avios from the total to get MR - equivalent miles.

His ability to think on his feet and perform quick mental calculations gives him an edge in litigating complex cases.

Having a sick or injured pet is hard enough, without having to do the awful mental calculation of: «Is saving my beloved pet worth X thousand dollars?»

Recently, Uber, in an attempt to promote transparency and save ride hailers from mental calculations, offered upfront fares where riders will know the cost of a trip in advance.

For the first time, a man has controlled nanorobots inside a living creature just by doing mental calculations.

Ozil appears to have so much time on the ball it seems like slow motion — wouldn't be surprised if he is conducting a quick mental calculation to work out what he should do next to maximise the probability of a goal — shoot with his weaker foot or pass to someone in a better position — last two games he chose the latter with goals resulting from both decisions.

I am dead serious when I say that if you can, just stop looking at the clock and doing that mental calculation — you know the one where you think, OK, if I go to sleep right now, I might get two hours in...?

If you're anything like me, you probably went through the mental calculation in your head wondering if you were pregnant at the time you indulged in a glass of wine or two at dinner.

Random electrical stimulation, a technique that applies a gentle current through the skull, leads to a long - lasting boost in the speed of mental calculations, a small laboratory study of university students has found.

A person wearing an EEG cap that measures brain activity was then instructed either to do mental calculations, or rest.

A climactic gunfight in the season finale goes as far as to show the math — the mental calculations the shooters have to do to make their shot — to juice up the action.

Once you do these mental calculations and rough estimations, if you feel that you don't know where a significant amount of your training is, it's current state, or if there's an opportunity for optimizing or enhancing its engagement, then you should modernize.

However, during the interview Year 8 students used written and mental calculations.

For years the education system fought the introduction of the calculator for fear that pupils will lose all their mental calculation skills.

Some educators believe that this kind of mental calculation is the basis for higher mathematics learning.

Leeds: Wednesday, 10 October 2018 Central London: Wednesday, 7 November 2018 Trainer: Caroline Clissold Boost your understanding of the primary mathematics curriculum, extend your knowledge of CPA and mental calculation, plus gain a clearer picture of what progression truly looks like.

If you've done a quick mental calculation, and believe you have a higher debt - to - income ratio, there are two options on the table which might help reduce your monthly payments.

[i] He also observed that Buffett had a «remarkable facility for remembering and using numerical information, plus an adeptness in mental calculation.»

This mental calculation looms more largely in an owner's mind as a dog gets older, and thoughts turn to how long the pet has left.

While hefty, I did some mental calculations, consulted a few friends and family members, and decided to sign up.

You start with a randomized room in a randomized building and import randomized drugs, quickly doing the mental calculations needed to achieve the desired effect before spinning the needed machines around so they fit together as closely as possible.

On the one hand it lets you do mental calculations, forming routes that will gather you the Leads needed to complete quests, freeing you up to focus on other things, too.

With no engine thrust and a rapidly descending flight trajectory, Sully did the mental calculations and disregarded the established flight protocol which would have required him to return to Laguardia.