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El vocabulario de las operaciones matemáticas básicas en inglés

ADDITION/SUMA: El símbolo de la adición o suma (+) lo llamamos  plus  en inglés. Un enunciado de este tipo lo expresamos así: 7 + 3 = 10 : Seven  plus  three is ten 5 + 84 = 89 : 5   plus  84  is 89 Por otro lado, también podemos usar el verbo  to add  para expresar sumas: Add  six to forty and that is forty six Add  10 to 2 and that is 12 SUBSTRACTION/ RESTA: En este caso, también hay dos formas de enunciar una resta en inglés. Por un lado tenemos el símbolo de la resta (-) que en inglés se llama  minus: 10 – 7 = 3 : Ten  minus  seven is three 36 – 25 = 11 : 36   minus  25 is 11 Por otro lado, podemos usar el verbo  to subtract: Subtract  seven by four and it’s three Subtract  45 by 10 and it’s 35 MULTIPLICATION/MULTIPLICACIÓN: Para el símbolo x tenemos la palabra  times : 4 x 5 = 20 : Five  times  four is twenty / Five  times  four equals twenty 8 x 2 = 16 : 2  times  8 is 16 / 2  times  8 equals 16 O también podemos usar el verbo  to multiply , especial...

Christmas tree - Making a production estimate

Production estimates calculate the cost of a project before it begins. This way, we can decide if our project is profitable as we have designed it, or if it would be better to choose other materials or models to bring costs down. We make a note of the materials we are going to use, so we calculate the quantity we need.

The Millennium Development Goals

The  Millennium Development Goals  ( MDGs ) are the eight international development goals for the year 2015 that had been established following the Millennium Summit of the United Nations in 2000, following the adoption of the United Nations Millennium Declaration. All 189 United Nations member states at that time, and at least 22 international organizations, committed to help achieve the following Millennium Development Goals by 2015: To eradicate extreme poverty and hunger To achieve universal primary education To promote gender equality and empower women To reduce child mortality To improve maternal health To combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases To ensure environmental sustainability To develop a global partnership for development Get into 8 groups. Each group takes one of the millennium development goals . Answer these questions: What is the g...

Top 10 future technology that is here right now

Every year there seems to be a new innovation, something that makes life easier for some and more complicated for the less technologically inclined. For this installment, we’re looking to the future of technology at ten anticipated concepts that could actually do us some good – or, at the very least, sound really cool to talk about. 10. Sunscreen Pill 9. Self-Fitting Clothes 8. Universal Translators 7. Mind Controlled Appliances 6. Portable Healing Laser 5. Motor Neuroprosthetics 4. Permanent Artificial Organs 3. Personal Nanofactory 2. Crash-Proof Cars 1. Avatars (DARPA)