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Another day of struggling, in a classroom packed with more than 60 kids, to study logic and algebra in Spanish.
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Moy teaches high school algebra, drives a school bus in the afternoon, coaches football and wrestling, umpires Little League baseball and drives for rideshare services.
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UVa basketball is paint-drying, grass-growing, sixth-period-algebra boring.
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At Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories in Pullman, Wash., workers take classes in algebra, physics and writing in the factory complex and can check out books from a company library.
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The computers are an integral part of the new math curriculum, under which most textbooks used for algebra and geometry will be online and home assignments can be done offline to be uploaded later at school, officials said.
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Two students in his classroom died, and one of the slain students, Joaquin Oliver who went by the nickname 'Guac,' had just been transferred into his algebra class.
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The Stoneman Douglas algebra teacher had all the right instincts.
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Research from the National Center for Education Statistics shows that African-American students who were above average in math in fifth grade were often not identified as being prepared to take algebra in eighth grade.
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Origin and Etymology of algebra
First Known Use: 1551
in the meaning defined at sense 1
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ALGEBRA Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of algebra for English Language Learners
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: a branch of mathematics that uses numbers and letters that represent numbers
ALGEBRA Defined for Kids
Definition of algebra for Students
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