Research: undertake and coordinate forefront research in the field of number theory and arithmetic geometry.
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More than a third of 8-9 year-olds in villages cannot pass simple tests in reading and arithmetic.
Typing, though, with all of its significant inefficiencies, is rapidly becoming a skill as basic as reading and arithmetic.
Sure, Angry Birds has no letters or numbers, but there are other things to learn besides literacy and arithmetic.
To non-partisans, the idea of taming the deficit by spending cuts alone flies against both common sense and arithmetic.
And while computers were ideal for streamlining tedious dice rolls and arithmetic, those, for him, were never the point.
Schools turned out clerks who functioned as interchangeable parts in a vast bureaucracy where the skills of reading, writing and arithmetic were key.
But refugee girls are now being taught the basics of reading, writing and arithmetic, in a school sponsored by an organisation that has campaigned for women's rights in Afghanistan.
It also makes employees do an hour of voluntary work a week, helping children and adults with basic reading and arithmetic, running anti-drugs programmes and training people for call-centre work.
As for the lack of teaching time, how about cutting out some of the nonessential curriculum, such as bike safety, that currently takes up much of the school day, and refocusing on the basics, such as reading, writing and arithmetic?
Ms Truss said an over-reliance on calculators meant children missed the rigorous grounding in mental and written arithmetic they needed to progress.
The American people are right and the arithmetic is clear: You cannot achieve the amount of deficit reduction needed with spending cuts alone.
Mr Shima had not personally done the original and optimistic arithmetic, but he took responsibility for it, as did the president of the National Railways.
You can do the arithmetic and figure out it can be a tough way to make a living.
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Optimizing your tax strategy involves some arcane arithmetic and a lot of guesswork about your future and about congressional behavior.
But 76% agreed with proposals to test the skills of trainee teachers in the areas of reading, writing, arithmetic and new technology.
The electoral arithmetic and the early opinion polls both favour Mr Sarkozy.
Because of him, men understood that both the immensely large and the infinitesimally small could be grasped by the mind and measured by arithmetic.
With these exigencies of arithmetic and politics, Mr Netanyahu could well need the six weeks that the law gives him to produce a government.
At primary school, it says there should be more emphasis on arithmetic and that some topics, such as the calculation of fractions, volume and area should be covered earlier.
And the figures still show 50-odd per cent of pupils at the age of 11 are not by your own light properly equipped for secondary school in reading, writing and particularly in arithmetic.
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.
Prior to the beginning of classes, learners are required to take an assessment test aimed at verifying their entry knowledge on basic literacy and numeracy through the identification of letters, syllables, words, sentences, numbers, arithmetic operations and writing down their personal details.
The numeracy tests cover reading graphs and tables, as well as mental arithmetic questions including percentages and fractions.
When teaching numeracy, the facilitators focus on teaching numbers and the idea of quantity, grouping and interpretation of measurement units, arithmetic operations, special forms and orientation, and content interpretation, such as reading tables and graphics.
Samson and I worked together through a few problems, from arithmetic to trigonometry, and I have to say that the estimations required were eminently fair.
And that should be the conclusion of anyone susceptible to logic, fairness, and the laws of arithmetic.
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The Scottish government needs to tell us exactly what the arithmetic is and how it will find the extra funds.
His math lectures must have been addictive because he went from algebra to trigonometry to calculus and back to basic arithmetic.
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Instead, a region called the parietal lobes, also part of the prefrontal cortex and usually associated with arithmetic performance - was brought into play.
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