arithmetic skills

collocation in English

meaningsofarithmeticandskill

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arithmetic
noun[U]
uk
/əˈrɪθ.mə.tɪk/us
/əˈrɪθ.mə.tɪk/
the part of mathematics that involves the adding and multiplying, etc. ...
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skill
noun[C or U]
uk
/skɪl/us
/skɪl/
an ability to do an activity or job well, especially because you have ...
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(Definition ofarithmeticandskillfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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These courses include clerical, secretarial and business skills, heavy goods driving, catering and food preparation, computer skills and preparatory courses in communications and basic arithmetic skills.
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Sailors, for example, who wished to climb the social ladder had to present literacy and arithmetic skills on their rsum.
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When activation in the left angular gyrus is greater, a person's arithmetic skills are also more competent.
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Its goals are to improve basic literacy and arithmetic skills in addition to computer ability.
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It was designed to teach mathematics as a problem solving activity rather than just teaching arithmetic skills.
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There was some initial resistance to the idea out of fear that basic arithmetic skills would suffer.
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Some educators support role-playing games as a healthy way to hone reading and arithmetic skills.
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The relevance of arithmetic testing to teaching arithmetic skills.
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People who added and subtracted volumes of grain every day used their arithmetic skills to count other things that were unrelated to volume measurements.
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Emphasis was given only to reading, writing and arithmetic skills in the lower primary level and writing composition and geography was taught in the higher primary level.
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Showing that these subsets of arithmetic skills are supported by different brain mechanisms offers the opportunity for a deeper understanding of the learning processes required to acquire arithmetic proficiency.
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