Math Forum http://mathforum.org/kb List of forum topics en Re: How would YOU simplify arithmetic? http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=7848257&tstart=0#7848257 >The use of the '-' and '+' signs as both verbs (take away and add) as well as adjectives (negative and]]> Jul 11, 2012 12:56:56 AM Jul 11, 2012 12:56:56 AM niederberger@comcast.net 0 Re: How would YOU simplify arithmetic? http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=7847776&tstart=0#7847776
As mentioned before, for the 'wider spread' consensus amongst the consumers of arithmetic education]]> Jul 10, 2012 2:11:00 AM Jul 10, 2012 2:11:00 AM ASAPANS 0 Re: How would YOU simplify arithmetic? http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=7847377&tstart=0#7847377 >You're off on a tangent.

You are absolutely right. But then clearly defining
what is meant by the]]> Jul 8, 2012 2:13:05 PM Jul 8, 2012 2:13:05 PM niederberger@comcast.net 0 Re: How would YOU simplify arithmetic? http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=7846548&tstart=0#7846548
The question was: how would you simplify (the mathematical theory of)
arithmetic ... (from the one(s ) now being]]> Jul 6, 2012 11:25:35 PM Jul 6, 2012 11:25:35 PM greeno@malei.org 0 Re: How would YOU simplify arithmetic? http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=7845471&tstart=0#7845471 >It is not a question of simplification but using and seeing the need.

That's what I was trying to suggest by]]> Jul 4, 2012 11:16:35 PM Jul 4, 2012 11:16:35 PM niederberger@comcast.net 1 Re: How would YOU simplify arithmetic? http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=7845441&tstart=0#7845441 ]]> Jul 4, 2012 8:29:54 PM Jul 4, 2012 8:29:54 PM wbishop@calstatela.edu 0 Re: How would YOU simplify arithmetic? http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=7845440&tstart=0#7845440 ]]> Jul 4, 2012 8:23:49 PM Jul 4, 2012 8:23:49 PM wbishop@calstatela.edu 0 Re: How would YOU simplify arithmetic? http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=7845351&tstart=0#7845351 disastrous as it was in the 1970s, the challenge of making arithmetic more]]> Jul 4, 2012 3:29:45 PM Jul 4, 2012 3:29:45 PM clydegreeno@cox.net 0 Re: How would YOU simplify arithmetic? http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=7845331&tstart=0#7845331
Jul 4, 2012 1:49:48 PM Jul 4, 2012 1:49:48 PM syscore 1 Re: How would YOU simplify arithmetic? http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=7845318&tstart=0#7845318 There was a book out years ago for grade schools called "The day]]> Jul 4, 2012 1:21:24 PM Jul 4, 2012 1:21:24 PM elanderje@gmail.com 4