(n.) The science of numbers; the art of computation by figures.
(n.) A book containing the principles of this science.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two different mental stressors were used: a mental arithmetic task with low stimulus intensity and one with high stimulus intensity characterised by more challenging instructions, a more competitive situation, and exposure to affective noise.
(2) From the patients' performance we make the following theoretical claims: that some arithmetic facts are stored in the form of individual fact representations (e.g., 9 x 4 = 36), whereas other facts are stored in the form of a general rule (e.g., 0 x N = 0); that arithmetic fact retrieval is mediated by abstract internal representations that are independent of the form in which problems are presented or responses are given; that arithmetic facts and calculation procedures are functionally independent; and that calculation algorithms may include special-case procedures that function to increase the speed or efficiency of problem solving.
(3) Staphylococcal phage types per milk sample ranged from 0 to 5, 0 to 7, and 0 to 8, with arithmetic means of 1.9, 2.3, and 2.3, respectively.
(4) This study compared changes in forearm blood flow, forearm vascular resistance, blood pressure, and heart rate elicited by mental stress (mental arithmetic) in 12 adolescents with a hypertensive parent and 13 age-matched adolescents with normotensive parents.
(5) The actual level of each variable observed during the arithmetic task was compared with the level predicted from the exercise by paired t-tests.
(6) One hundred isolates were tested in triplicate, and geometric mean MICs were plotted against arithmetic mean zone diameters and regression statistics calculated.
(7) The mean plasma values (arithmetic mean) of cadmium, lead, and mercury in industrial area were 0.53, 6.37, and 0.37 micrograms.100 ml-1 in maternal blood and 0.30, 4.82, and 0.31 micrograms.100 ml-1 in cord blood.
(8) Subjects were grouped, by using a median-split on their total mathematical performance scores, into a group of 10 low in arithmetic skill and a group of 10 high in arithmetic skill.
(9) In the 22 patients who performed 10-minute mental arithmetic, the changes persisted throughout mental exercise.
(10) The effect-addition model predicts that the combined action of two drugs is equal to the arithmetic sum of the individual effects.
(11) Neuropsychological complications occurred in conjunction with high urea levels in all patients, indicating varying degrees of impaired performance in motor tactile, receptive language, arithmetic, and intellectual functions.
(12) ADD boys with internalizing-type diagnoses had lower verbal IQs and arithmetic scores and performed more poorly on attention tasks than those without; parents also rated them more adversely.
(13) A greater degree of EEG desynchronization during mental arithmetic was found over the left hemisphere and the right occipital area.
(14) During work they were required to solve a constant flow of arithmetic problems, listen to music, or work in an unfilled control condition.
(15) Upon exiting the water, the divers did a series of arithmetic computations.
(16) When the distractor was an auditory arithmetic task, no difference emerged between the two hands for the retention of touches to the fingers; however, when the distractor was a tactual maze task executed by the right hand, asymmetry in favor of the left hand was observed.
(17) A placebo response was seen in just over half of the volunteers when the cardiovascular changes to mental arithmetic induced stress in healthy volunteers were measured.
(18) After the letter strings vanished from the screen the subjects were to press the space-bar whereby a mental arithmetic task was presented corresponding in difficulty to the preceding message.
(19) Since the arithmetic mean thickness of the tissue layers and of the air-blood barrier are the same in the two altitudinal groups, the average alveolus must have a smaller volume in the high-altitude mice.
(20) The effects of alcohol tolerance on stress sensitivity to venipuncture and mental arithmetics, on acute ethanol effects, and on ethanol-induced modifications of stress responses were tested in 44 healthy male volunteers selected according to a questionnaire as 22 high (HC) and low (LC) habitual consumers of alcohol each.
Numeracy
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) It means that children entering reception class in September 2015 are likely to be assessed using the new system, recording each child’s literacy and numeracy skills within a few weeks of their starting school.
(2) "Many commentators would now say that our mathematics in school is really glorified numeracy," he said.
(3) Later, she signed up for courses in literacy, numeracy and retail at a sixth form college in Stratford, east London, working as a domestic cleaner to pay her bus fare.
(4) I’m so relieved to have passed the numeracy skills test but it did not boost my confidence in my mathematical ability.
(5) Some of the consumers, according to the statement, could not access or use an email address, could not use a computer, did not have access to the internet, or did not have adequate literacy or numeracy skills “so as not to be capable of undertaking and completing the course in which they were enrolled”.
(6) There is an urgent need for donors to commit to skills development in three ways, said the report: by supporting country programmes to ensure all young people can stay in school at least until lower secondary level; by supporting second-chance programmes for young people who missed out on basic literacy and numeracy skills; and by giving disadvantaged youth training to improve their chances of earning a decent wage.
(7) Basic literacy and numeracy skills are low, meaning that the children who drop out of school are on course for a life in lowly-paid jobs.
(8) "There is a widespread dishonesty about standards in English schools and low aspiration," he claims, before complaining that there is "a common view that only a small fraction of the population … should be given a reasonably advanced mathematical and scientific education" while many other pupils leave school with little more than basic numeracy.
(9) New policies on tackling domestic violence and improving literacy and numeracy in schools all had an impact.
(10) The report highlighted that only 4% of 16-year-olds who have failed GCSE Maths and English go on to pass them by the age of 19, an omission that contrasts with the rest of the world's absolute determination to improve basic numeracy and literacy of its post-16 vocational students.
(11) These are: Remembering Indigenous soldiers is one way to 'live reconciliation' | @IndigenousX Read more Literacy Numeracy Information and communication technology (ICT) capability Critical and creative thinking Personal and social capability Ethical understanding, and Intercultural understanding.
(12) Instead of expecting primary teachers to cover not only literacy and numeracy as well as science and the humanities but also music, drama and PE, there were specialists who took on these roles, including small-group activities for "gifted" children as well as for those who needed help in maths and reading.
(13) Schools such as Bygrove primary school in east London achieved outstanding results in the tests of literacy and numeracy.
(14) The government would take into account people with caring or parental responsibilities, numeracy and literacy issues, and mental and physical capacity, he said.
(15) About 8.5 million adults, 24.1% of the population, have such basic levels of numeracy that they can manage only one-step tasks in arithmetic, sorting numbers or reading graphs.
(16) "He was very much ahead of his time in recognising that an integrated curriculum also needed a commitment to basic literacy and numeracy."
(17) Research continues to show that, even after family background is accounted for, children accessing high quality early years services achieve better literacy and numeracy results.
(18) Literacy and numeracy on their own “held no immediate benefit for the learners”.
(19) You can get involved in the hurly-burly of the day-to-day political debate but at the same time in such an important and significant review as this you can be objective and balanced; and that’s why the whole process will be quite transparent, there are terms of reference, there’s a web page, anybody can put in a submission and they will be duly read and noted.” Donnelly said the review was needed because student performance in literacy, numeracy, mathematics and science was declining or flatlining.
(20) Ensuring those offenders become literate and numerate makes them employable and thus contributors to society, not a problem for society.” He will say the failure to teach prisoners properly is indefensible, given the armed forces have already demonstrated that it is possible to teach poorly educated adults to a basic level of literacy and numeracy using tried and tested methods.