Abacus

as had the very differently disposed. (Boardman 279) For instance, the Temple of Hera I (Paestum, Italy, ca. 550 BCE.), it was one of the Doric temple. We can see that detail of the columns was different as Ionic order. It didn’t consist volute and abacus (which is the top part of the…

Social work back in the day around 2500 B.C. Ancient Hebrews were required to give tithe to benefit the poor. This was considered an act of social working. 373 B.C. King Ashok helped create the first social services known as the abacus, which was used to keep track of the donations. 325 A.D. Emperor Constantine, a Christian church set up a variety of social services such as; elder care, hospitalized, and orphanages. Back then social workers manually hand wrote everything . They didn’t have…

place value mats, tens frames, MABs, abacus, bundling sticks, arrow cards, and number expanders allowed Athena to show the same numbers in various formats (multiembodiments) as advised by Reys et al. (2012). This helped her to recognise the visual and symbolic nature of the numbers and see how numbers can be partitioned in both standard and non-standard ways (Appendix D). In extending her writing of numbers on the place value mat, in addition to using the iPad abacus app with digital readout,…

Girls Just Wanna Not Run: The Gender Gap in Young Americans’ Political Ambition by Jennifer L. Lawless and Richard L. Fox Based on the results of a new survey of more than 2,100 American college students between the ages of 18 and 25 which assessed the likelihood of running for public office in the United States of America and the “gender gap in ambition”, Jennifer L. Lawless, Associate Professor of Government at American University, and Richard L. Fox, Professor of Political Science at Loyola…

Valuation Methods In the book Finance: Applications and Theory (2015), Cornett, Adair and Nofsinger state that net present value (NPV) is the purest form of capital budgeting, because it measures the amount of wealth increase we expect from a project. This is really one of the only questions a manager or decision-maker is concerned with when considering approving a project. How much money will it make for the company? Net Present Value Net present value is calculated by subtracting the…

The book “DIVIDE” written by Matt Taibbi was published in 2014 by Spiegel & Grau Publisher. The book consists of stories that portray the U.S society as a society that divides the citizens in to rich and poor and ones with power or without power. Powerful people gain even more power while those who are weak get weaker. Average citizens are being criminalized while large corporations are being forgiven for their criminal actions. Taibbi goes through nine examples that exemplify how justice works…

The civilization of Ancient Greece was one that spanned for several years. During these times, the Greeks excelled in many different fields such as in art, entertainment, math, science and especially in architecture. Greek architecture showed the development and the evolution of their society. This type of engineering came from the people who inhabited the Greek mainland and the Peloponnese, the islands of the Aegean Sea, the Greek colonies in Ionia, and Magna Graecia. It stretches from 900…

“Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World” is about the Mongol army led by Genghis Khan. Genghis Khan was born with the name Temujin. He grew up in a world of tribal violence, murder, kidnapping and enslavement. His family left him to die on the steppes because he was like an outcast of the family. Khan never received any formal education. From the harsh setting he was in he learned the range of human emotion which is desire, ambition and cruelty. That molded him into the greatest ruler…

century the Song Dynasty became the first government in the world to print its own paper for currency. Technology developed rapidly in the Song Dynasty. Firearms began to be widely used during military combat. The magnetic compass and calculator(the abacus) was also invented in this era. This dynasty had been a period of governmental superiority and intricate public association. There were numerous of schools and places to worship during this time frame. “Despite its great wealth and technical…

with keeping track of passing time have all been a part of earlier human civilizations. Prehistoric artifacts dating back over 20,000 years have suggested that early humans made attempts to quantify time. Therefore, it is no accident, that the abacus is based of the number 10; ten fingers or ten toes. As civilizations flourished mathematics as we know it today grew out of the desire and or need to count larger and larger time frames or quantities. As civilizations settled and developed…