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34 posted on 06/13/2018 7:24:33 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)

Arithmetic is a branch of mathematics.

Maybe according to Google et al., but I have multiple Math Degrees and where I went (Rensselaer) no courses were offered in Arithmetic.

ML/NJ

at least through eighth grade

Before eighth grade, it's arithmetic not math. — ML/NJ

Arithmetic is a branch of mathematics.

Indeed - but a relatively specialized branch - with the interesting exception of the “word problem.”
How well I remember sitting in grade school at the end of the day, and hearing the teacher’s assignment of Arithmetic homework. If it was a page of number crunching, the whole class would mutter about it.
OTOH if it was a page of “word problems,” the rest of the class would set up a loud moan - while I inwardly smiled and thought, “Only a few problems - and they will be interesting problems at that!"

44 posted on 06/13/2018 7:58:31 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (Journalism promotes itself - and promotes big government - by speaking ill of society.)