Essays Tagged: "Multiplication"

An overview of the genetic disease Cystic Fibrosis

sential ducts. For example, thick mucus in breathing passages in the lungs clogs airways and allows multiplication of bacteria, predisposing to infection; and blocking of the ducts of the pancreas cau ...

(5 pages) 81 0 3.0 Feb/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

The importance of arithmetic in math

Arithmetic is the ABC of math. Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division are the basics of math and every math operation known to humankind. In ... 's of math, the four basic operations. As people say, math is a language, and addition subtraction, multiplication, and division are its alphabet, along with the number line as well. The properties ar ... ld be a variable. Now, there are more sophisticated properties such as the Distributive Property of Multiplication with respect to Addition, which states that a(b+c)=ab+ac. This property actually help ...

(3 pages) 133 1 4.2 Jan/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Mathematics

Ancient Egyptian Mathematics

rder than ours because half of it was guess and check and they didn't use place value.Now I will do multiplication. Let us use 9X7 as an example. They multiplied by making two columns of numbers. The ...

(3 pages) 62 0 2.7 Feb/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > African Studies - History

The Double Helix by James Watson

f the World Peace Conference. He explained that he had just been in a meeting, "The Nature of Viral Multiplication" for a society of General Microbiology in Oxford. There was a speaker that was suppos ... Watson's theories on TMV. Andre kept the meeting alive by giving input on divalent metals in phage multiplication. This made him agreeable to ions being important in the structure of nucleic-acid. Th ...

(4 pages) 37 0 4.2 May/2004

Subjects: Science Essays

Child development class observation report

n her a math evaluation and I wanted to tester her in four areas of math. Addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, algebra and geometry were subjects used. The object of this evaluation ... ted to continue her evaluation.The following paper I gave her were twenty questions of division and multiplication. I again told her to take as much time needed. This time I timed her with out her kno ...

(2 pages) 151 1 3.8 Jun/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays

Anyone can make things bigger and more complex. What requires real effort and courage is to move in the opposite direction--in other words, to make things as simple as possible.

. To take mathematics as a good example, when asked what is "12x45", we may count the result out by multiplication in five second, but if our ancestors encountered the same problem" what is the total ... nd an hour in adding them one by one to get the answer. Apparently, as the deeper rule of addition, multiplication is more efficient in another sample way. Further, in order to resolve more complicate ...

(2 pages) 18 0 3.0 Jan/2005

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Explaining the Order of Operations

n the following orderYou may remember this as "Please excuse my dear Aunt Sally"ParenthesesExponentsMultiplication & DivisionAddition & SubtractionRemember with parentheses you solve the inner ... ermost grouping symbol.Using parentheses you can change the order when you want something different.Multiplication does not always come before division and addition does not always come before subtrac ...

(1 pages) 35 0 1.5 Mar/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Mathematics

Losing everything

he class. The entire room echoed in unison with the word 'four', and Ms. Patterson went on with her multiplication queries.Ms. Patterson was a young teacher; Bright, cunning and beautiful. Every stude ...

(4 pages) 15 0 0.0 Aug/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Poems & Short Stories

Essay on technology being our downfall.

erations quickly but if you remove my calculator I become useless. I now fail at basic devision and multiplication. Fractions are horrible and we best hope I am not a cashier when the power goes out.A ...

(1 pages) 36 0 3.8 Oct/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Persuasive Writing

The Basics of Computers

mputer is an electronic machine, capable of performing basic operations like addition, subtraction, multiplication, division etc. The computer is also capable of storing information, which can be used ... ose to the crossbar. Abacus was mainly used for addition and subtraction and later for division and multiplication.2.2) 1614 AD - Napier's BonesThe Napier's Bones was invented by John Napier, a Scotti ...

(18 pages) 231 0 4.0 Dec/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Math Story

e would do this paper of problems that started out with adding and subtracting, and than move on to multiplication and dividing. When you finished with one problem on the page, you would color it in; ...

(1 pages) 904 0 0.0 Mar/2001

Subjects: Humanities Essays

Essential IT

and program design Arithmetic Operators + Addition - Subtraction * Multiplication / Division Mod Modulus Integer Division ^ ...

(1 pages) 1172 0 0.0 Sep/2001

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Information system

base in order to record information on the system or booking agent design spreadsheet for addition, multiplication or other accumulation in order to process payments. All these jobs have been done by ...

(6 pages) 50 0 4.3 Aug/2007

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Importance of Calculators

ved from a machine that could only perform simple four-function operations ( addition, subtraction, multiplication, division) into one that can now also execute highly technical algebraic symbolic man ...

(7 pages) 29 0 0.0 Sep/2007

Subjects: Science Essays > Technology

The roles of i-330 and o-90

and OneState is attempting to create a law of ethics based on addition, subtraction, division, and multiplication. He is a builder of the space shuttle, Integral, which will colonize other planets. D ...

(4 pages) 2719 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Lesson Plan Division Year 4

.Ps: 6 stage 1, 1 Stage 2 and 3 Stage 3. Resources: Worksheets: Dividing using pictures and multiplication prompts (2 sides) - lower group.Division 2 sides of scaffolded recording of division ... lar example on the board.Explain to the children it is important to find "break down the sum" using multiplication facts that they already know. The parts can then be added together.Pupil work Lower g ...

(3 pages) 2505 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

Lessom Plan Division Year 4

.Ps: 6 stage 1, 1 Stage 2 and 3 Stage 3. Resources: Worksheets: Dividing using pictures and multiplication prompts (2 sides) - lower group.Division 2 sides of scaffolded recording of division ... lar example on the board.Explain to the children it is important to find "break down the sum" using multiplication facts that they already know. The parts can then be added together.Pupil work Lower g ...

(3 pages) 2069 0 4.8 Feb/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

Math - The Order of Operations

lish sentences.Without being told by a symbol or some other means, we do not know whether to do the multiplication or the addition first. To avoid the confusion of such an expression naming two differ ... grouping symbols, there is a standard order of operations to be followed. That order is Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition and Subtraction from left to right. In mathematics, more than in ...

(1 pages) 1465 0 5.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

History of Complex Numbers

olutions to cubic equations and he was following the basics of addition, subtraction, division, and multiplication to compose a system that could be used with complex numbers.Although complex numbers ...

(2 pages) 16 0 0.0 Nov/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Mathematics

Building Critical Thinking Skills with Math

mathematics could ever be used in 'the real world.' Beyond the rudimentary math skills of addition, multiplication, subtraction and division most persons would see little to no use for greater planes ...

(4 pages) 43 0 4.5 Aug/2009

Subjects: Science Essays > Mathematics