Sentences with phrase «on arithmetic»

The EIAT was developed by the National Elevator Industry Education Program (NEIEP), and primarily focuses on arithmetic computation, reading comprehension, and mechanical comprehension.

Developed by the National Elevator Industry Education Program (NEIEP), primarily focuses on arithmetic computation, reading comprehension, and mechanical comprehension.

Seldom is severance pay based on arithmetic.

BTW a later article by Monckton (2012) does another odd thing with IPCC projections, based purely on arithmetic.

More important, however, would be to help schools with math and science, as both depend on arithmetic, where working with decimals is so much easier than working with fractions.

Many of his arrangements are also based on arithmetic and geometry.

Her works bring together various ephemera material to formulate a visual network based on arithmetic diagrams.

[4] In 1550 Giorgio Vasari wrote a biography of della Francesca, in which he accused Pacioli of plagiarism and claimed that he stole della Francesca's work on perspective, on arithmetic and on geometry.

Despite the reliance on arithmetic, though, it's not an overly hard game to play or learn, yet there's enough going on under the surface to keep you engaged in the action.

On an arithmetic average basis, the top 20 funds invested approximately 40.4 % of their assets in fixed income instruments and 39.9 % in equities.

Low price distorts movement on arithmetic charts.

You are right on the arithmetic, Michael, and, like Joanna, a lot of indies don't take that route for those reasons.

The focus on arithmetic means elementary teachers will teach less geometry.

For instance, proponents of «21st - century skills» were pleased that the Common Core valued having students explain their math work even when they couldn't determine the right answer, while others lauded the standards» heightened focus on arithmetic.

It doesn't matter that this is a terrible idea that is chasing wonderful people out of the profession, because it has the things that politicians really love: It's based on arithmetic, it has pretensions of being evidence - based and, above all, it's a blunt instrument — because nothing pleases a politician more than a blunt instrument.

Paper 1 is on arithmetic; it takes about 20 minutes.

To me, that says that Common Core focuses on arithmetic in grades where arithmetic should be the focus, and that the states did not focus on arithmetic.

One activity, lower group, focusing on arithmetic skills with rest of the class focusing on reasoning style questions Starter of the powerpoint looks at multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000

They are admirably aligned with rigorous research (on early reading instruction, for example); explicit about the quality and complexity of reading and writing that should be expected of students every year; very solid on arithmetic as a clear priority in the elementary grades; ambitious in aiming for college and career readiness by the end of twelfth grade; and relatively jargon - free.

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The following books — on arithmetic and astrophysics, exoplanets, gravitational waves and the human sense of taste — will provide you with the basics, and prime your scientific mind.

The argument of «Labour bias» in the electoral system is based on arithmetic that shows that Labour receives on average fewer votes per MP than Lib Dems or Conservatives.

Depending on the arithmetic he may try to carry on as a minority government but would probably have to resign at the first major parliamentary defeat.

In maths — learning from East Asia - there's a stronger emphasis on arithmetic and more demanding content in fractions, decimals and percentages to build solid foundations for algebra.

Whether a deal like this could work in 2015 depends very much on arithmetic and political sentiment.

It involves concepts such as early algebra and geometry from the early levels, rather than focussing primarily on arithmetic.

Our focus was on arithmetic mean (average) household incomes by quintile (and the top 5 %) over the 50 - year history of this data series.

Higher productivity growth, sustained over a few decades, would have a profound impact on future living standards, but to expect an economic boom of anything but the short - lived variety is to rely on arithmetic that doesn't add up.

Not exact matches

In his spare time, he started working on a piece of software that was designed to find prime numbers in arithmetic progression.

Minutes of the Fed's March 20 - 21 policy meeting published this month showed officials expected the annual PCE price indexes to accelerate in March partly because of «the arithmetic effect of the soft readings on inflation in early 2017 dropping out of the calculation.»

Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross defended President Donald Trump's plan to raise tariffs on steel and aluminum with a can of Campbell soup, a Budweiser tallboy, and some basic arithmetic.

Minutes of the Fed's March 20 - 21 policy meeting published on April 11 showed officials expected the annual PCE price indexes to accelerate in March partly because of «the arithmetic effect of the soft readings on inflation in early 2017 dropping out of the calculation».

Instead, the arithmetic of economic expansion - employment growth plus productivity growth - is already constrained by a 4.6 % unemployment rate and a deficit on current account, and seems unlikely to be helped by the current policy direction, aside from rather short - lived effects.

In the case of China, for example, whatever GDP growth turns out to be, and again this is just arithmetic, Chinese household income growth will be higher and investment growth lower — after nearly thirty years of the reverse relationship — so that the impact of slower growth will be disproportionately smaller on consumption growth and larger on investment growth.

Quick take: Based on the April S&P 500 average of daily closes, the Crestmont P / E is 121 % above its arithmetic mean and at the 99th percentile of this fourteen - plus - decade monthly metric.

Some arithmetic on Citi's component parts suggests that's possible.

But Italy's fiscal arithmetic rests strongly on the idea of a good and solid economic recovery lasting for a few years.

See Ockham's Razor and the Market Cycle for a review of the total return arithmetic behind these estimates, and Yes, This is An Equity Bubble for additional background on our present concerns.

If, however, on waking up I find only # 5 in the drawer, I don't conclude that the laws of arithmetic have been broken, but possibly the laws of England.

With regard to miracles, CS Lewis pointed out that if, on each of two nights, I put # 10 into my bedside drawer the laws of arithmetic tell me that I now have a total of # 20.

He also worked on an original new kind of elementary arithmetic.

That is clearest in the singing of four - part hymns, something that Protestant congregations learned as a matter of routine (the standard teachers» manual used in Saxony in Bach's childhood had sections on reading, arithmetic, and four - part singing).

I am teaching my daughters math, and while I know Calculus, I can not attempt to teach them everything I know about math on day one, from basic arithmetic all the way to calculus.

There I studied not arithmetic, geography, physics, chemistry, or history, but the laws governing an egg laid on a holiday and sacrifices in a temple destroyed two thousand years ago.

On the basis of this insight, one is able to solve (or better, dissolve) the famous paradox of Epimenides the Cretan (who claimed that all Cretans are liars), or at least identify and clarify the nature of the paradox presently silk - screened on numerous APA fund - drive T - shirts, or, most importantly, circumvent Russell's own paradox of the class of all classes that are not members of themselves, a notion that was otherwise crucial to the attempt to demonstrate the foundations in logic of the arithmetic concept of numbeOn the basis of this insight, one is able to solve (or better, dissolve) the famous paradox of Epimenides the Cretan (who claimed that all Cretans are liars), or at least identify and clarify the nature of the paradox presently silk - screened on numerous APA fund - drive T - shirts, or, most importantly, circumvent Russell's own paradox of the class of all classes that are not members of themselves, a notion that was otherwise crucial to the attempt to demonstrate the foundations in logic of the arithmetic concept of numbeon numerous APA fund - drive T - shirts, or, most importantly, circumvent Russell's own paradox of the class of all classes that are not members of themselves, a notion that was otherwise crucial to the attempt to demonstrate the foundations in logic of the arithmetic concept of number.

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.

They are the arithmetic of devastation, and they must be understood, as Judith Miller has pointed out in her new book on the Holocaust, «one, by one, by one.»

As the end nears, the NFL has turned into the NFL — the National Arithmetic League — and the American public is holding its breath as Commissioner Pete Einstein hunkers over his calculators, trying to figure out whether Tampa Bay's first victory in history last Sunday will qualify the Buccaneers for a wildcard spot when the playoffs begin on Christmas Eve.

Sums on the yards per point arithmetic give the benefit in the checkbox of Indianapolis by 1.3.

While some of them are obvious, there is much that's interesting in primary school maths — no longer are children expected to study arithmetic in all its painful detail before they can start on algebra or geometry!