Sentence examples for mathematical exercise from inspiring English sources

The process was no mere mathematical exercise.

The essential insight here is that regulation isn't just a mathematical exercise in designing price schedules that lead to efficiency.

"Anybody who says it's all going to be a mathematical exercise is wrong," said Tom D. Rath, a senior adviser in the Romney campaign.

At the Population Reference Bureau, Ms. Cornelius said that although projections were not predictions, but the result of "a mathematical exercise," they had to be taken seriously.

To these critics, Mr. Bloomberg's plan is a clunky one-size-fits-all mathematical exercise that favors numbers over people, standardization over local quirks.

It took a straightforward mathematical exercise to calculate how long it had taken for the Earth to cool to its current temperature.

"How do you think we should do this?" "Could there be another way?" Weighing, measuring and timing are all mathematical exercises.

Echoing complaints that have been mounting in the economics world for at least twenty years, and which became louder after the financial crisis of 2008, the student rebellion is calling for a more pluralistic and diverse approach, rejecting the textbook methodology that all too often reduces economics to a set of mathematical exercises.

City budgets and the choices made in them are not just mathematical exercises.

One girl suggests that they can make money by moving bricks in a nearby brickyard, and Wei begins giving the students mathematical exercises centered on finding out how much money they need to earn for the bus tickets, how many bricks they need to move, and how much time it will take.

In some contexts, this may devolve into a selection of simple mathematical exercises ("plug-and-chug" problems), but few physics instructors would see that as desirable or appropriate.