Algebra often involves manipulating numbers or other objects using operations like addition and multiplication. Flavio Coelho/Moment via Getty Images You scrambled up a Rubik’s cube, and now you want ...

The very word can twist the stomachs of otherwise well-adjusted adults, dredging up memories of nonsensical X's and Y's and a lifelong loathing of math. For many, the math course was the educational ...

If you are like most adults in this country, it's likely that you don't have particularly fond associations with algebra. Algebra is often considered an academic "gateway," which really means "most ...

Algebra is all about missing values or numbers. If you have solved a missing box problem, you have already solved an algebra equation. Rather than drawing missing boxes or writing the words “missing ...

I am haunted by Gabriela Ocampo. Last year, she dropped out of the 12th grade at Birmingham High School in Los Angeles after failing algebra six times in six semesters, trying it a seventh time and ...

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