He told her that he could do mental arithmetic as far as fractions; that he knew the number of square miles and the number of inhabitants in the country.
He was so clever; he could do mental arithmetic up to fractions.
The principles of arithmetic or geometry are laws to which every practical question involving number or measurement must be submitted.
Whewell's words; "We are as certain of it as of the truths of arithmetic and geometry.
This has been suggested by Professor Leslie, in the article on arithmetic above quoted; a great chemical authority, but who had not taken the trouble to look at Bacon, and forgot that he mentions charcoal and sulphur as well as nitre.
In the first part, he explains the rules of commercial arithmetic in detail, and is the earliest Italian writer who shows the principles of Italian book-keeping by double entry.
Montucla has erroneously said that thisarithmetic of Sacro Bosco is written in verse.
The arithmetic of Cassiodorus occupies little more than two folio pages, and does not contain one word of the common rules.
A common literary tradition ascribes to him the introduction of their numerals, and of the arithmetic founded on them, into Europe.
Arithmetic is one of the things my mother wants me to learn very well, and if Miss Pink doesn't teach it me I shall tell your mother.
And how many days the silly dispute might have gone on, there is no telling, had it not happened that the very next morning, just as they came to the time for the arithmetic lesson, the door opened and Mrs. Vincent came in.
I will say no more about your arithmetic lessons; will you act so as to show me I have not been foolish in forgiving you?
Felicia, 'and should be expunged from the arithmetic books.
No; but the laws of arithmetic are the same, whether I am here or not.
I can sympathize with you; I had to work harder over arithmetic than at any other study; but I learned to like it.
This method of teaching Arithmetic possesses this important advantage, that it may be pursued without interrupting the pupil's progress in any other useful study.
This change had already taken place before the historical origins of arithmetic are met.
In arithmetic we were able to observe a stage in which spontaneous behavior led to the invention of number names and methods of counting.
It is evident, then, that geometry and arithmetic have been drawing closer together, and that to-day the distinction between them is somewhat hard to maintain.
It was the positional arithmetic of the Arabians, of which the origins are obscure, that made possible the development of modern technique.
Geometry here also comes into consideration, and, in connection with positional number symbols, begin those interactions between arithmetic and geometry that result in the forms of our contemporary mathematics.
In the best form, these devices resulted in the abacus; indeed, it was not until after the introduction of arabic numerals and well into the Renaissance period that instrumental arithmetic gave way to graphical in Europe (D.
For a commercial people the education was of a utilitarian character, especially arithmetic and writing, the commercial arts.
Arithmetic was taught by games and plays, such as trading apples or pieces of money, guessing at the number of grains of wheat concealed in the hand, or by arranging pupils in military lines.
Allow me to call your attention to two or three of the puzzling things contained in “Old Pike,” as his Arithmetic was commonly known.
This method of teaching arithmetic possesses this important advantage, that it may be pursued without interrupting the pupils' progress in any other useful study.
Arithmetic was approached with caution, and its higher "developments" with consternation.
There appears to be a great scarcity ofarithmetic books in the Province, and those in use are in general too difficult or deficient in matter, etc.
Reading, writing andarithmetic have been uniformly taught in all schools.
Here was an Irish school with its predilection for difficult problems in arithmetic and algebra.
I remember being present at an arithmetic lesson where the children were being taught that two and three make five.
So far as preparation for arithmetic is concerned, a combination of the two bodies of material is both feasible and desirable.
If I remember the dancers more clearly than I do the arithmetic process, how must it have been with the children?
It was the harrowing science of arithmetic which caused the most trouble, and even to this day--but that is a different story.
Neither of them involves anything more difficult than the most ordinary arithmetic of the secondary school or the counting house, but it will be seen that they throw a flood of light upon many of the most important human concerns.
Let us, then, trust the arithmetic instinct as fundamental and, for instruments of thought that shall not fail, repair at once to the domain of number.
Remember, O stranger, Arithmetic is the first of the sciences and the mother of safety.
So fatal to the development of the arithmetical sense is the current worship of the rule for its own sake, and so deadly a narcotic is the conventional arithmetic lesson to all who take part in it!
Two sums correctly worked secured a "pass"; and it was therefore possible for the child to achieve salvation in arithmeticby blindly obeying the various rules with which his teacher had equipped him.
It is not in the arithmetic lesson, then, that provision is ordinarily made for the development of a sense, or perceptive faculty, through the medium of self-expression on the part of the child.
Reading, writing, andarithmetic are means to ends beyond themselves, ends which are constantly presenting themselves to the Utopian.
Here is another example of the mental blindness which rule-worship in Arithmetic is apt to induce.
And it is in that special development of the Legal School which is known as Pharisaism that we shall look for a precedent for the conventional teaching of arithmetic in our elementary schools.
The ultra-legalism of the Pharisee in the days of Christ finds its exact counterpart in the ultra-legalism of the child who has been taught arithmetic by the methods which the yearly examination fostered, and which are still widely prevalent.
Knowledge of arithmetic and of other more or less abstract subjects, shows itself in the successful working of the corresponding problems, theoretical or practical as the case may be.
He had to work his abstract sums in arithmetic correctly.
The life we live, even on the farm, is full of science and history, civics and economics, arithmetic and geography, poetry and art.
Teacher- training schools now make a point of training play leaders as well as teachers of arithmetic and geography.
Unless a woman remembers the arithmetic she learned when she was a schoolgirl, she is apt to have trouble taking measurements.
Don't depend on me," said Dan emphatically; "my arithmetic is about like yours.
Arithmetic always was my stumbling block at school.
And she picked up little Albert's arithmetic and showed me the two tables, one for druggists and one for grocers; and there I'd been using druggist's weight to weigh groceries.
I never did learn all the multiplication table, and all the arithmetic I'm certain about now is: one baby and another baby makes two babies, and twelve things make a dozen.
It is needless to particularise where all is so graphic and faithful; but let the studious little rabbit over his arithmetic lesson at p.
The top boy in mentalarithmetic said: "One hundred and forty-four times darker than ordinary darkness.
An inspector once asked a teacher during a lesson in Mental Arithmetic if she ever allowed a pupil to propose questions to the children.
One boy who has a great dread of arithmetic dreamt he was in heaven, where his teacher kept calling out, "No sums right, stand up!
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