arithmetic
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Suddenly, they were no longer struggling with arithmetic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
The arithmetic above is written for a company that already has the racks, the power and the people, not for a shop the size of mine.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
Both were usually euphemisms for the same thing: I was dieting, and I had already begun the day’s arithmetic.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
You can do the arithmetic: about 20 curves per mile, speed limit 15 mph.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
Somehow, she managed to impart the finer points of arithmetic and algebra in the auditorium, with two other classes taking place simultaneously.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
The arithmetics of distance and time were not cheering either.
From Time Magazine Archive
The oldest produced their geographies and arithmetics and showed her how far they had gone.
From The Reign of Law; a tale of the Kentucky hemp fields by James Lane Allen
It also found its way into the Dutch arithmetics, e.g.
From The Hindu-Arabic Numerals by Louis Charles Karpinski
We have farm ballads and farm arithmetics, but as yet no one has written for us a book on farm pedagogy.
From Reveries of a Schoolmaster by Francis B. Pearson
"In all the arithmetics six beats five, and seven beats six."
From The Market-Place by Harold Frederic
Vocabulary lists containing arithmetic
Expressions and Equations
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Operations and Algebraic Thinking
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