None of those present the youngest being 15, the oldest, 24 knew how to read or write but they all had a grasp of basic math, which they had taught themselves through exchanging cigarettes and the likes.
Having worked in IT for the past 12 years I am often disappointed that some of my younger colleagues have only a vague grasp of Maths and Logic.
He left the sect with little grasp of math, science or history.
They either cannot see, or dismiss, the hands-on grasp of math that learning music provides; or the value that learning art has for giving children an avenue of expression or an understanding of the importance form has in shaping our capacity for organized thought.
Although politically incorrect to admit, universities today are failing their students by not requiring them to master skills like critical thinking, cogent writing, basic math and a grasp of economics.
The apes seemed to grasp quantity as well as the kids did — they consistently chose the dish containing more treats, even when the choice involved using what might loosely be called math — and also seemed to have just as good a grasp of causality.
But as bioinformatics software and algorithms become increasingly complex, it might be unrealistic to expect students to have a strong grasp of the math, theory and computer science that underpin those processes.
Although you will not need to be a master of algebra, geometry or calculus, you will still need to have a good grasp of basic math.
It is aimed at children who already have a basic grasp of numbers, simple math, telling the time and knowing the difference between odd and even numbers.
Instead, it had to do with each judge's choice of awe or skepticism toward the government, tendency to have his mind clouded by words like "terrorism" and "technology," and grasp of basic math.
