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...Enrique J. Mayer Tawañaquen (fourth): Arithmetic operations of summation, subtraction, multiplication and division serve social principles of “rectification,” a term Urton introduces and discusses at length. When circumstances produce imbalances, incomplete sets or disharmony, action must...

...Robert West Doubtless many ways could be devised for using Mayan numerals arithmetically. But there is still no way of knowing precisely how the ancient Maya made their calculations. The author of the small book herein reviewed presents still another method of applying Mayan numerals...

... on the basis of the calendar year, according to categories of historical interest, and with arithmetic accuracy. The keys to these rectifications are individual data cards for each entry or item in it, a coding scheme or schemes, and some fairly simple computer programs. The only way in which this system...

... for “zero,” Calderón considers this unit to represent “completeness” or “totality” rather than “absence” or “nothing.” The next four chapters discuss the methods whereby the Maya were able to perform basic arithmetic, such as addition or division, by moving a series of counters over a tablet marked...

... been elected to office three times between 1940 and 1968 (four times if one counts the election of 1984 in which juggling rather than arithmetic was used in the vote tallies), but on each occasion he was ousted from power—hardly an indication of Somoza-like domination of the nation’s political stage...

... hundred times as great are both termed “incredible” (pp. 66, 143). His economic logic and arithmetic are miscalculated: a decline of 11.7 percent in Nicaragua’s gross domestic product between 1987 and 1990 could not be a 21.5 percent decline per capita (p. 181)—that would require a near doubling...

... of children; thus, the curricula of schools in the countryside would emphasize arithmetic skills only up to the basic level, in order to devote more time to matters of greater practical value in the rural setting. In his advice to teachers, Sastre echoed his predecessors’ call for the establishment...

..., and scattergrams that distract from the text while conveying a false sense of exactitude. Dean resorts to long, narrative arithmetic calculations and deductions from circumstantial evidence of the quantity and quality of forest that must have been destroyed at different stages. Working backward from known...

... subtle references to the unfolding events as it recommended allowing Caribbean migration. From this perspective, immigrants were brought in not just according to the arithmetic of population and wage rates but also based on a calculus attuned to an emerging, assertive black Cuban consciousness...

... a certain infelicity of phrasing or false cognate would have been easily remedied had the press taken the trouble to subject the translation to a careful proofreading. The conclusion is titled “History Is Not Arithmetic,” and here again the authors assert that Brazilian history cannot be understood...

.... Therefore, it was the simultaneous growth in population and the supply of money in Bourbon Mexico that allowed relative prices to change as the price level rose. Now, this is simple enough. You can demonstrate the effect by combining grade school arithmetic with Economics 1. Regressions are only...

... to the whole island and refer to souls or persons, on what grounds should we refuse to believe them and to credit them with having performed the trivial arithmetic required for expanding the count figures so as to cover all the population? Certainly they were not such fools as not to realize, for instance...

..., art, religion, citizenship, and elementary reading and arithmetic. 11 He referred to them as modern missionaries and conceived of their task as comparable to that of Vasco de Quiroga, Bartolomé de las Casas, and Pedro de Gante. These great colonial missionaries had carried out effective...

... am a simple man without any schooling in arithmetic whatsoever. However, I kept a record of my work. Like many peons, I worked for Señor Mejía much more than was necessary, but this señor kept claiming I was still in debt. He demanded that I either continue working, or give him a mozo to work off...

... to children who could not afford them, and in its prizes for its annual public examinations it awarded suits of clothing. 31 The schools taught reading, writing, arithmetic, and religious doctrine. Instruction in morality and urbanity included a form of civics; a political catechism was recommended...

... The orders were directly responsible for the care and administration of several charitable institutions. In a flush of patriotism the Casino Español had been organized in 1863. 4 Primarily a social club, it functioned additionally as a school of practical learning in language, arithmetic, bookkeeping...

..., Andeans across the viceroyalty were still adapting their own arithmetic calculations to the Spanish custom. 40 Their answers to Ortiz de Zúñiga suggest that chronological age may have played a role in familiarizing Andeans with practical uses of Western numeracy. Round numbers could offer an easy way...

... In providing arithmetical examples of how the quotient rule would work, Galvis’s tables included the Socialist Party as if it had become a permanent element of Colombia’s party system. 34 The argument recurred in the sessions of the following year, when for the first time the entire block of Liberal...

... Bishop’s arithmetic, here, as in most other instances, came more from his heart than his head” (49, fn. 28). On his criticism of the conquistadores’ cruelty, Prescott says that “charity—and common sense—may excuse us for believing the good father has greatly overcharged” (123, fn. 7). In brief, Las Casas...

... of final exams at La Candelaria, the girls, to the satisfaction of the official press, orated about not only “the clearest doctrines” in religion, grammar, reading, and arithmetic but also “the most beautiful episodes in history.” 29 And pupil Otilia López defended the “great need” for women's education...