Illustration: At a low table in a Japanese elementary classroom, two children work with wooden counting counters. One child slides a group of two counters toward a group of three, while the other checks the combined quantity on five extended fingers.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

算さん数すう

sansuu

arithmetic

Example sentences

算数さんすうは数かずを取とり扱あつかう。
Arithmetic deals with numbers.
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算数さんすうでは正確せいかくさが重要じゅうようだ。
Accuracy is important in arithmetic.
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彼かれは簡単かんたんな算数さんすうすらできなかった。
He couldn’t do even simple arithmetic.
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Kanji in 算数

算calculate; diviningOnサンKunそろ
数number; strengthOnスウ・ス・サクKunかず・かぞえる・しばしば

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