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• All About Algebra (Home)
• Algebra Basics
• Linear Equations
• Linear Inequalities
• Quadratic Equations
• Quadratic Inequalities
• Vocabulary
• Fun Math Activities

Welcome to my Algebra page.  On this site you will find answers to your burning Algebra questions.  You will also find step-by-step instructions, vocabulary, and activities that can be used at home or in the classroom.  I hope you enjoy the site!  Feel free to look around!

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• Check out these books...
• Algebra Workbook for Dummies
• Algebra for Dummies
• Algebra II for Dummies
• Algebra 1 (Concepts and Skills)
• Algebra 2

Or these journal articles...

• Title: Interactive Algebra Websites for Students

Authors:  Ferrucci, Michelle, Brock, Maureen

Journal Name: Phi Delta Kappan

p. 720

• Title: Test-Taking Strategies of High and Low Mathematics Achievers

Authors: Hong, Eunsook; Sas, Maggie; Sas, John C.

Jornal Name: The Journal of Educational Research (Washington, D.C.)

 p. 144-55

• Title: Solving Quadratic Equations

Author:  Elgin, David

Journal Name: Mathematics in School

p. 22

• Title: Quadratics

Author: Fischer, Ian

Journal Name: Mathematics in School

p. 17-19

• Mathematicians of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
• Women Mathematicians
• History of Math (Wikipedia)
• History of Algebra (Wikipedia)

So you're curious about the history of algebra? Well, you've come to the right place. Algebra began in ancient Egypt and Babylon. The Egyptian and Babylon people developed a number system to solve linear and quadratic equations. In Babylon, quadratic and cubic equations were widely used. In Egypt, the people were mainly working with linear equations.

In the following centuries, algebra could be found in many other countries. These countries included Greece, China, and Arab countries.

The Alexandrian mathematicians Hero of Alexandria and Diophantus continued the traditions of Egypt and Babylon. Diophantus wrote a book, Arithmetica, which was more advanced. He was the first to use symbols for unknown numbers.

Algebra then found its way into the Islamic world. In the 9th century, the Arab mathematician al-Khwarizmi wrote one of the first Arabic algebras involving equations with examples and proofs.

Today, Diophantus and al-Khwarizmi are both known as the fathers of Algebra.

("History of Algebra"; Wikipedia, 2008)

A complete timeline of algebra can be found by clicking here.