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Algebra As A Gateway Subject

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the next-thing-you-know-it's-diff-eq dept.

Spock the Baptist writes: "The Washington Post started a two article series Sunday, and Monday August 18 and 19 2002. The articles deal with something that the math, engineering, and physics faculties at colleges, and universities have long known. Algebra is a 'gateway subject' for math, science, and technology, and secondary schools in general are not doing a good job teaching algebra."

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  1. Actually it is al-jabr by Brian_Ellenberger · · Score: 5, Funny

    Interestingly enough, our word Algebra comes from the book Hisab al-jabr w'al-muqabala written by a Middle-Eastern man named Abu Abd-Allah ibn Musa al'Khwarizmi around 830.

    Brian Ellenberger