Hello ALGEBRA..!!
What can you get from your parents?
There are so many possible answers for this question. some may answer “I can get many things, like monthly allowance, food, home, car, and any other facilities,” while others may answer, “Everything I want!!”
Okay, let’s move on to the next question…
What can you get from mathematics?
Hahaha….Can I guess?
The answers might vary from “headache”, “stress”, “boring”, and other negative answers.
However, believe it or not…. Math is an amazing subject in our school. Why???
It is because …..
MATH IS EVERYTHING IN OUR DAILY LIFE
Now, we will see how close our life with math, especially ALGEBRA..
So..HELLO ALGEBRA..!!
Do you like playing football?
Do you like playing ANGRY BIRDS?
If yes, please say thanks to ALGEBRA and say to Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Musa al-khawarizmi.
WHO IS HE..?
He was the founder of algebra..
Although the term “algebra” is now in universal use, various other appellations were used by the Italian mathematicians during the Renaissance. Thus we find Paciolus calling it l’Arte Magiore; ditta dal vulgo la Regula de la Cosa over Alghebra e Almucabala. The name l’arte magiore, the greater art, is designed to distinguish it from l’arte minore, the lesser art, a term which he applied to the modern arithmetic. His second variant, la regula de la cosa, the rule of the thing or unknown quantity, appears to have been in common use in Italy, and the word cosa was preserved for several centuries in the forms coss or algebra, cossic or algebraic, cossist or algebraist. Other Italian writers termed it the Regula rei et census, the rule of the thing and the product, or the root and the square. The principle underlying this expression is probably to be found in the fact that it measured the limits of their attainments in algebra, for they were unable to solve equations of a higher degree than the quadratic or square.
(Melissa Snell: The History of Algebra, 1911 Encyclopedia)
So now, in our daily life where is the ALGEBRA?
Have u ever compared prices when you shop, rent something, save your money in bank deposit, or think how to hit all the pigs by only using less number of birds in our favorite game..?
If the answer is yes, that’s ALGEBRA..
ALGEBRA teaches us how to solve our problems with critical thinking and develop our problem solving skill. It helps us in our future.
Now for the less interesting stuff, when we finish school and start applying for jobs, our possible future employer may give us tests with some math problems. They want to know if we can use mathematical skills to solve the problems and they may include algebra – problems with variables. Most employers that pay well will not hire us unless we can solve algebra type problems to prove that we have logical and reasoning problem solving skills.
So, let’s be closer with ALGEBRA and it will give us more than a best score in MATH..
(picture source: David H.Bailey and Jonathan M. Borwein.Algebra Is Essential in a 21st Century Economy. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-h-bailey/algebra-is-essential-in-a_b_1724338.html )
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