algebra
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“I wasn’t that crazy about algebra, and I did not fully master it, but geometry was something that just came naturally to me,” she wrote in a 2020 memoir, “It Began With a Dream.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026
Yet rather than attribute the recent five-year drop only to the pandemic, you point to the state’s decision in 2013 to stop requiring algebra for all eighth-graders.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 1, 2025
Despite leaving school at a young age and initially finding terms like "decimals" and "algebra" intimidating, Mr Elsom is said to have quite a talent for working with figures.
From BBC • Aug. 11, 2025
Alisa moved onto long division by age 4 and basic algebra by the time she was 5.
From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2025
In algebra, you can solve an equation when you have 1 unknown variable.
From "The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl" by Stacy McAnulty
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