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.
Not exactly a simple error in arithmetic.
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Growing up without electricity and running water in a village near Chinese University--where his father was a professor--he was more interested in skipping school than in learning arithmetic.
Growing up without electricity and running water in a village near the Chinese University of Hong Kong--where his dad was a professor--he was more interested in hanging out with his friends and skipping school than in learning arithmetic.
Of course, what happens in local elections does not (directly at least) change the arithmetic in the House of Commons.
And Robin van Persie was likely learning basic arithmetic in about second grade.
More than a third of 8-9 year-olds in villages cannot pass simple tests in reading and arithmetic.
Some other improvements in the budgetary arithmetic meant that Mr Darling could unveil this extra expenditure without changing his overall forecasts for borrowing for those years.
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The dialectic of Arithmetic in Grocery Shopping, in Rogoff, B.
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If he does not, then Germany knows that the harsh budget arithmetic in the new Stability and Growth Pact will not add up even for France - let alone the likes of Spain.
Ms Truss said an over-reliance on calculators meant children missed the rigorous grounding in mental and written arithmetic they needed to progress.
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.
They also tested whether the learning process was conscious by distracting the subjects during the video viewing - the volunteers were asked to do simple arithmetic sums in their head, for example.
In addition to straight arithmetic errors, the IRS can scan tax returns early on to see if there are any mismatches on filers' names, Social Security numbers and other data they can correct.
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Although the electoral maths is now in its favour, the fiscal arithmetic is less forgiving.
The SNP are claiming victory based on arithmetic, but, in terms of expectation, Labour did far better than the nationalists.
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Because it would change the arithmetic of the current Commons in quite a significant way.
The mathematician defined the language in his 1703 paper Explanation of Binary Arithmetic.
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This assumption was proposed by Sharpe in his timeless 1991 article, The Arithmetic of Active Management.
The somewhat baffling arithmetic behind this advice is explained in the chapter on protecting your retirement from college costs.
But 76% agreed with proposals to test the skills of trainee teachers in the areas of reading, writing, arithmetic and new technology.
This is the conclusion of Nobel Laureate William Sharpe in his latest Financial Analysts Journal article The Arithmetic of Investment Expenses.
Introduced in the early 1990s, Mr Kotlikoff's unpleasant arithmetic is attracting renewed official interest.
The potential gain for innovation from of reducing the maintenance spend is huge, as simple arithmetic shows a 10 percent reduction in maintenance to 70 percent allows an increase in innovation budgets, from 20 to 30 percent, a 50 percent gain.
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In a moment, well give a hint about the compound arithmetic that makes this so.
But the greater problem, at least in size, lies with Social Security, where the demographic arithmetic is startling enough to force politicians to take notice.
It's impossible to add up all the indirect environmental costs of a windmill, but a good proxy for this arithmetic is simply to compare the resources consumed (in dollars) with the output produced (in dollar value of the electricity).
As an arithmetic matter, this would still leave 1999 growth negative in many cases on a year-over-year basis.
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