During my years of teaching algebra to middle schoolers, I was often asked, "Why do we have to learn algebra?" Knowing that it is the perfect subject to help students work their way from the concrete to the abstract, I would respond with, "It's a way to help you think differently than you do now."Here is an excellent 4-minute interview between NPR's Scott Simon and math guy Keith Devlin discussing algebra.
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