Scary thing is that Bobcatsquared teaches math in Newark public schools. Sad!
My father was a math professor and he often pointed out that math is not arithmetic. Einstein had trouble with arithmetic.
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Isn't arithmetic a "branch" or "form"of mathematics.
If arithmetic isn't math.
What is it ?
Yes, arithmetic is a branch of mathematics, but the words are not synonymous, which is the way they are often used. Mathematics is a much broader field. You can be good at many other areas of math -- calculus, algebra, etc. -- but not be that great in arithmetic. Mathematics is more about theory and arithmetic is more about numbers.
Webster's defines the two this way:
Arithmetic is "a branch of mathematics that deals usually with the nonnegative real numbers including sometimes the transfinite cardinals and with the application of the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division to them."
Mathematics is "the science of numbers and their operations, interrelations, combinations, generalizations, and abstractions and of space configurations and their structure, measurement, transformations, and generalizations."