How to Use algebra in a Sentence

algebra

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  • Can a four-year-old master fractions, or even learn algebra, in pre-school?
    Jon R. Gundry, The Mercury News, 20 Mar. 2017
  • Yet in the three years since, the number of eighth-graders taking algebra has doubled.
    Katherine Long, The Seattle Times, 1 June 2017
  • The program didn’t just rehash the same old algebra topics.
    Cheryl Cowan, The Mercury News, 12 June 2017
  • Justin, whose last name is being withheld to protect his privacy, failed algebra his freshman year.
    Zoë Kirsch, Slate Magazine, 23 May 2017
  • His text is plain and clear, and his equations are mostly just algebra—nothing that would bother a typical high-schooler.
    Mitch Waldrop, National Geographic, 16 May 2017
  • Baughn and DeLogé were doing algebra, and Ross and Chris were jimmying locks.
    Vauhini Vara, WIRED, 23 May 2017
  • Arab scholars laid the foundations of algebra in the ninth century; calculus did not emerge in full flower until the late 1600s.
    Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 19 Aug. 2014
  • Sometimes, as in the case of Trump's call for banning Muslim immigrants, the identity algebra at work, in the warped thinking here, boomerangs the speech back into acceptable.
    Luke O'Neil, Esquire, 28 June 2017
  • Most kids that age are in the eighth grade, getting ready to learn algebra.
    Heather Kelly, Washington Post, 1 June 2022
  • All-wheel drive would solve that traction algebra, but what's the fun in that?
    Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 29 June 2021
  • But with so much up in the air, the equation starts to look less like algebra and more like alchemy.
    Lionel Laurent, Bloomberg.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • In other words, all those things that stick in our brains while the algebra and physics fall by the wayside.
    Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Apr. 2023
  • But just like in your high school algebra class, some couldn't manage to earn a B.
    Ryan Serpico, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Jan. 2022
  • Eighth-grade algebra?—could offer clues about what, if anything, went wrong here.
    Dan Kopf, Quartz, 15 Nov. 2019
  • But after three hours of algebra, someone had to take the fall.
    Kevin Fisher-Paulson, SFChronicle.com, 17 Nov. 2020
  • His clues include being 'top of the class', algebra, ringing a tiny bell, and a brief flash of a shark.
    Alicia Vrajlal, refinery29.com, 24 Oct. 2023
  • If all goes as planned, by the time the students reach fifth grade, many will be taking pre-algebra.
    Craig Harris, azcentral, 11 May 2018
  • Caleb, aka Moze, is an algebra teacher who’s ready to see if Moze + Jenn = true love.
    Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 3 June 2024
  • The overall algebra passing rates in Broward fell from 91% to 70%.
    Scott Travis, sun-sentinel.com, 7 Sep. 2021
  • The algebra of need and exploitation will not change from one society to the next.
    Dan Chiasson, The New York Review of Books, 15 May 2020
  • But algebra performs its gymnastics over the fixed bars of the equal sign.
    Quanta Magazine, 10 Oct. 2019
  • Something about that math isn’t adding up; and fans were all too eager to demonstrate the algebra.
    Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 6 Feb. 2023
  • On his desk lies a book he's been reading, just for fun, on matrix algebra.
    Everton Bailey Jr., OregonLive.com, 9 Dec. 2017
  • The goal was to get them on a track that leads to calculus, starting with algebra 1 in seventh grade.
    Leslie Postal, OrlandoSentinel.com, 23 Nov. 2019
  • Who wants to get a surprise test on algebra terms or math equations?
    Alison Caporimo, Seventeen, 13 Aug. 2019
  • Amari Aaron, an eighth grader at the school, had Mr. Braddy for homeroom and algebra.
    Ashley Southall and Nate Schweber, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Research about whether eighth graders should take algebra is mixed.
    Nirvi Shah, USA TODAY, 21 June 2023
  • His book contains plenty of word problems and their ilk, of the sort taught in the average algebra class.
    Siobhan Roberts, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Moze, a 25-year-old algebra teacher from Albany, New York.
    Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 15 July 2024
  • Her mother, an algebra and data science teacher at Venice High School, was part of a team of teachers that initiated a school-wide phone-free program in March.
    Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 11 July 2024

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