Arithmetic
noun
The branch of mathematics dealing with numbers and their addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
Marie did her arithmetic homework before going to bed.
Often appears as...
- simple arithmetic
- arithmetic operation
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General,Technical
adjective
Related to the math that involves the process of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
The arithmetic problem was challenging, but John was determined to solve it.
Often appears as...
- arithmetic progression
- arithmetic series
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General,Technical
noun
A calculated manipulation or maneuver to achieve a desired result.
His arithmetic and reasoning had tied the opposition in knots.
Often appears as...
- political arithmetic
- financial arithmetic
noun
The branch of mathematics dealing with numbers and their addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
Marie did her arithmetic homework before going to bed.
Often appears as...
- simple arithmetic
- arithmetic operation
Usage tips
General,Technical
adjective
Related to the math that involves the process of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
The arithmetic problem was challenging, but John was determined to solve it.
Often appears as...
- arithmetic progression
- arithmetic series
Usage tips
General,Technical
noun
A calculated manipulation or maneuver to achieve a desired result.
His arithmetic and reasoning had tied the opposition in knots.
Often appears as...
- political arithmetic
- financial arithmetic
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Basic Math
Arithmetic is often considered the most fundamental area of mathematics and a foundation for other math concepts.
Understanding arithmetic is essential before tackling algebra.
Pro Tip 2/3Everyday Use
Arithmetic is used in daily tasks, such as shopping, cooking, and budgeting.
Calculating change from a purchase involves basic arithmetic.
Pro Tip 3/3Subject-Specific
The term 'arithmetic' shouldn’t be confused or used interchangeably with higher-level math subjects like 'geometry' or 'calculus'.
They're studying arithmetic now, geometry will be next semester.
Pro Tip 1/3Basic Math
Arithmetic is often considered the most fundamental area of mathematics and a foundation for other math concepts.
Understanding arithmetic is essential before tackling algebra.
Pro Tip 2/3Everyday Use
Arithmetic is used in daily tasks, such as shopping, cooking, and budgeting.
Calculating change from a purchase involves basic arithmetic.
Pro Tip 3/3Subject-Specific
The term 'arithmetic' shouldn’t be confused or used interchangeably with higher-level math subjects like 'geometry' or 'calculus'.
They're studying arithmetic now, geometry will be next semester.
Pro Tip 1/3Basic Math
Arithmetic is often considered the most fundamental area of mathematics and a foundation for other math concepts.
Understanding arithmetic is essential before tackling algebra.
Pro Tip 2/3Everyday Use
Arithmetic is used in daily tasks, such as shopping, cooking, and budgeting.
Calculating change from a purchase involves basic arithmetic.
Pro Tip 3/3Subject-Specific
The term 'arithmetic' shouldn’t be confused or used interchangeably with higher-level math subjects like 'geometry' or 'calculus'.
They're studying arithmetic now, geometry will be next semester.
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Why elephants never...
sometimes even outwitting the researchers and manipulating their partners. And they've grasped basic arithmetic, keeping track of the relative amounts of fruit in two baskets after multiple changes. The rare combination of memory and problem solving can explain some of elephants' most clever behaviors,
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Let's use video to...
once you get ten in a row on that and it keeps forward you to more and more advanced modules so if you keep so it keep this is go further down the knowledge map we're getting into more advanced arithmetic further down you start getting into pre-algebra and early algebra further down you start getting
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Why do people get so...
leaving less of it available to tackle the math itself. People can suddenly struggle with even basic math skills, like arithmetic, that they've otherwise mastered. Academic anxiety certainly isn't limited to math, but it does seem to happen much more frequently, and cause more harm in that subject.
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Let's use video to...
it keeps forwarding you to more and more advanced modules. Further down the knowledge map, we're getting into more advanced arithmetic. Further down, you start getting into pre-algebra and early algebra. Further down, you start getting into algebra one, algebra two, a little bit of precalculus.
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Julian Treasure: Why...
by installing acoustic treatments, sound absorbing materials and so forth, this is what you get. In language, infinitely many words can be written with a small set of letters. In arithmetic, infinitely many numbers can be composed from just a few digits with the help of the simple zero.
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Why architects need to...
acoustic treatment sound absorbing materials and so forth this is what you get in language infinitely many words can be written with a small set of letters in arithmetic infinitely many numbers can be composed from just a few digits with the help of the symbol 0
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The murder of ancient...
divided among the four branches of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy and music. These subjects were not studied merely for the sake of curiosity or practical utility, but because they authenticated the belief that numbers were the sacred language of the universe.
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Storytellers Summit Day...
arithmetic in Matt's music theater I was involved that's my mother teaching me to play the harmonium so all of that is part and parcel of what this is but not everything was easy but I'll come to that later three women very important in my life my
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Unintended consequences...
expanding geometrically unfortunately our ability to model their long term behavior which has also been increasing has been increasing only arithmetic aliy so one of the characteristic problems of our time is how to close this gap
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Tim Flannery: Here on...
populations just continue to increase and this capacity to feed them increases arithmetic Li while the population increases exponentially species are destined to crash it's a very dismal view of the world it really is a
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Why elephants never...
sometimes even outwitting the researchers and manipulating their partners. And they've grasped basic arithmetic, keeping track of the relative amounts of fruit in two baskets after multiple changes. The rare combination of memory and problem solving can explain some of elephants' most clever behaviors,
Video examples
Let's use video to...
once you get ten in a row on that and it keeps forward you to more and more advanced modules so if you keep so it keep this is go further down the knowledge map we're getting into more advanced arithmetic further down you start getting into pre-algebra and early algebra further down you start getting
Video examples
Why do people get so...
leaving less of it available to tackle the math itself. People can suddenly struggle with even basic math skills, like arithmetic, that they've otherwise mastered. Academic anxiety certainly isn't limited to math, but it does seem to happen much more frequently, and cause more harm in that subject.
Video examples
Let's use video to...
it keeps forwarding you to more and more advanced modules. Further down the knowledge map, we're getting into more advanced arithmetic. Further down, you start getting into pre-algebra and early algebra. Further down, you start getting into algebra one, algebra two, a little bit of precalculus.
Video examples
Julian Treasure: Why...
by installing acoustic treatments, sound absorbing materials and so forth, this is what you get. In language, infinitely many words can be written with a small set of letters. In arithmetic, infinitely many numbers can be composed from just a few digits with the help of the simple zero.
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Why architects need to...
acoustic treatment sound absorbing materials and so forth this is what you get in language infinitely many words can be written with a small set of letters in arithmetic infinitely many numbers can be composed from just a few digits with the help of the symbol 0
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The murder of ancient...
divided among the four branches of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy and music. These subjects were not studied merely for the sake of curiosity or practical utility, but because they authenticated the belief that numbers were the sacred language of the universe.
Video examples
Storytellers Summit Day...
arithmetic in Matt's music theater I was involved that's my mother teaching me to play the harmonium so all of that is part and parcel of what this is but not everything was easy but I'll come to that later three women very important in my life my
Video examples
Unintended consequences...
expanding geometrically unfortunately our ability to model their long term behavior which has also been increasing has been increasing only arithmetic aliy so one of the characteristic problems of our time is how to close this gap
Video examples
Tim Flannery: Here on...
populations just continue to increase and this capacity to feed them increases arithmetic Li while the population increases exponentially species are destined to crash it's a very dismal view of the world it really is a
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
American Scientist
Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.
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Adam Rodriguez
American Actor
Math just wasn't my favorite. I didn't get how important math is and how it relates to real life. That's why I think I was turned off to it. Once I got down arithmetic and a little bit of algebra, I think I checked out. As I've gotten older, I think there's a lot more relation to math. English was my favorite subject.
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Penn Jillette
American Entertainer
The secret truth of 'Celebrity Apprentice' is that it isn't very hard... 'Celebrity Apprentice' is easy like junior high is easy. All the arithmetic, the creative writing and the history are super simple, but like junior high, you do that easy work surrounded by people who are full-tilt, hormone-raging bug nutty.
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Vannevar Bush
American Scientist
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
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Walter Cronkite
American Journalist
History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.
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Lawrence M. Krauss
American Physicist
We should teach kids how to question. Now having said that, of course, to be a productive adult, there are certain skills that are required - reading, writing, and, in the old-fashioned days, we used to say arithmetic. Now we say mathematics.
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Alissa Quart
American Writer
Piercing minds go mute around poetry. It is imagined to be overly technical, like advanced arithmetic; otherworldly, priestess-like; suffocatingly personal; excessively decorative; exhaustingly bourgeois or tiringly avant-garde.
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Rudolf Steiner
Austrian Philosopher
The most important thing in arithmetic is not the shapes of the numbers but the reality living in them. This living reality has much more meaning for the spiritual world than what lives in reading and writing.
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James C. Maxwell
Scottish Mathematician
The numbers may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as the complete equipment of the mathematician.
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Sydney Smith
English Clergyman
What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
American Scientist
Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.
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Adam Rodriguez
American Actor
Math just wasn't my favorite. I didn't get how important math is and how it relates to real life. That's why I think I was turned off to it. Once I got down arithmetic and a little bit of algebra, I think I checked out. As I've gotten older, I think there's a lot more relation to math. English was my favorite subject.
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Penn Jillette
American Entertainer
The secret truth of 'Celebrity Apprentice' is that it isn't very hard... 'Celebrity Apprentice' is easy like junior high is easy. All the arithmetic, the creative writing and the history are super simple, but like junior high, you do that easy work surrounded by people who are full-tilt, hormone-raging bug nutty.
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Vannevar Bush
American Scientist
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
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Walter Cronkite
American Journalist
History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.
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Lawrence M. Krauss
American Physicist
We should teach kids how to question. Now having said that, of course, to be a productive adult, there are certain skills that are required - reading, writing, and, in the old-fashioned days, we used to say arithmetic. Now we say mathematics.
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Alissa Quart
American Writer
Piercing minds go mute around poetry. It is imagined to be overly technical, like advanced arithmetic; otherworldly, priestess-like; suffocatingly personal; excessively decorative; exhaustingly bourgeois or tiringly avant-garde.
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Rudolf Steiner
Austrian Philosopher
The most important thing in arithmetic is not the shapes of the numbers but the reality living in them. This living reality has much more meaning for the spiritual world than what lives in reading and writing.
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James C. Maxwell
Scottish Mathematician
The numbers may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as the complete equipment of the mathematician.
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Sydney Smith
English Clergyman
What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?
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