Sentence examples for arithmetic skill from inspiring English sources

It does not require much arithmetic skill to recognize that the more people who hate the United States throughout the world, the larger the pool from which terrorists and suicide bombers can be drawn.

Basic arithmetic skill was measured by having participants complete as many of 45 simple expressions (such as 11 − 9 = ?) as they could in a 60-second period.

Finally, the presentation of each condition was separated by the completion of one of three tasks: the basic arithmetic skill test, the Mathematics Anxiety Scale, or the attention switching task; the order of these three tasks was counterbalanced across participants.

Judd et al. (2001) suggested that the moderation in within-subject designs occurs when a concomitant variable (for example, basic arithmetic skill, math anxiety level) predicts differences in performance between two conditions.

Overall, the increase in absolute calculation error when collapsing across interactivity conditions was moderated by basic arithmetic skills, r = −.37, p = .007; that is, the higher the participants' arithmetic skill, the smaller the increase in calculation error with articulatory suppression.

Table 2 Correlation between increase in absolute calculation error with suppression and the three concomitant variables   Interactivity condition Overall Low High BAS −.28* −.27 −.37** MASWITCH.01.34* SWITCH −.01.04.01 BAS basic arithmetic skill, MAS Mathematics Anxiety Scale, SWITCH attention switching score.

Calculators and computers have reduced the need for finely honed arithmetic skills.

And we have many other students who have not mastered even basic reading and arithmetic skills.

Her arithmetic skills are astonishing — difficult problems are solved in seconds.

In another room, Viraj and Vishal were using more conventional methods to tutor sixth- and seventh-grade students on their arithmetic skills.

Primary school performance, especially in reading and arithmetic skills, fell below those goals when results for 11-year-olds came out this week.