SANTA CRUZ – Instead of shooting paint-ball guns with friends or loafing at home, 15-year-old Nash McQuaide has spent a chunk of summer break hunkered down trying to solve algebraic equations.

In Algebra, factorising is the opposite of expanding. Module 1 (M1) - Algebra - Terminology Algebra is the part of mathematics in which letters and other symbols are used to represent numbers in ...

To mathematicians, equations are art. Just as many are moved by a painting or piece of music, to those who appreciate and understand math, expressions of numbers, variables, operations and relations ...

From 1990 to 2007, the proportion of eighth-graders taking algebra has nearly doubled, reaching 31 percent, and eighth-graders now take algebra more commonly than any other math course. In Minnesota, ...