Then Slade Gorton, a commissioner who the previous day had uttered some of the more caustic remarks about the city's response, told Mr. Giuliani that his own arithmetic suggested that more than 99.5percentt of the people in the towers who could possibly have been saved, the ones below the fires, were saved, and invited Mr. Giuliani to confirm that "overwhelmingly remarkable" performance.
So respectful is he of the unknown that he refutes his own arithmetic.
Initially he followed the example of Weigel, his Cartesian mentor at Jena (whose own Arithmetic Description of Moral Wisdom about Persons and Things [Arithmetische Beschreibung der Moral-Weißheit Moral-Weißheit von Personenpeared only in 1674; see Weigel 2003), by employing a qundi-mathematical approach that aSachen to demonstrative certitude in moral matters in place of Aristotelian probabilism.
For Marie, intelligence in a boyfriend was the worst kind of liability, and the few boys I did bring home knew how to write their own names and do basic arithmetic, at the very least.
As children return to school these days, producers and purveyors of school uniforms are enjoying an arithmetic lesson of their own: the rising number of cities, including New York, that require or encourage public school students to wear uniforms is adding up to more profit.
He called out Romney and Ryan for the vagueness of their own budgetary prescriptions, the implausibility of their arithmetic.
The effort to use authority to destroy Friedman's reputation, with no identification of a single arithmetic mistake in using their own models is reprehensible.
While retaining their own commitment to geometric models rather than adopting the arithmetic schemes of the Mesopotamians, the Greeks nevertheless followed the Mesopotamians' lead in seeking a predictive astronomy based on a combination of mathematical theory and observational parameters.
You can get your students to set up make-believe shops selling flowers, and use the labels to reinforce their understanding of using money and simple arithmetic (you could challenge them to create their own flowers to sell as an art project).
