arithmetic
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Suddenly, they were no longer struggling with arithmetic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
But the arithmetic was suddenly visible anyway: one broken appliance repaired, one replacement avoided, however many dollars still in somebody’s pocket.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
The star and showrunner of “Girls” is the best possible line of demarcation for “millennial art” for meta-textual and arithmetic reasons.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
For the businesses that supply props, artwork and other services, the arithmetic is simpler: Any shoot is better than none.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
Cora sat in the front of the class nowadays, and when Georgina corrected her—on her penmanship or arithmetic or speech—she no longer smarted.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
The arithmetics of distance and time were not cheering either.
From Time Magazine Archive
The frequency of appearance in the first fifty pages of eight beginners' arithmetics was as shown in Table 9.
From The Psychology of Arithmetic by Edward L. (Edward Lee) Thorndike
London publishes millions of penny books, penny histories and biographies, penny arithmetics, astronomies and dictionaries, and penny books to teach good behavior, honor, and patriotism.
From The Harris-Ingram Experiment by Charles E. (Charles Edward) Bolton
He published several arithmetics, dedicating them to his patron, Colbert.
From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by David Eugene Smith
It also found its way into the Dutch arithmetics, e.g.
From The Hindu-Arabic Numerals by Louis Charles Karpinski
Vocabulary lists containing arithmetic
Expressions and Equations
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Operations and Algebraic Thinking
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