ShadesOfMe wrote:
JakeG wrote:
Well done. I love maths, I am doing a degree in mathematics at the moment and algebra is my favouriute area; especially group and ring theory.
What is pre-algebra anyway? I mean I imagine they are leading you upto the study of algebra but what is the syllabus? Polynomial arithmetic, modular arithmetic, definition of binary operations and relations and things like that?
wow, um, think MUCH MUCH smaller.
http://www.math.com/homeworkhelp/PreAlgebra.html
Oh right, I think we just call that kind of stuff numeracy, or arithmetic* in the UK. In the UK, we don't do any (of what a mathematician would call) algebra until university level. I don't know if it is the same in the US.
*Well, it may be called arithmetic in schools but in university arithmetic (pronounced: a
rith-muh-tic) tends to mean number theory although I believe it is more of an American term in the context of it being a subject area. The verb arithmetic (pronounced a-rith-
meh-tik) (as in arithmetic function) is commonly used however.
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