How does algebra affect you?

Algebra affects us everyday, because if it didn't exist you would not live in the civilised world you live in.

i don't know? probably.

In Algebra 1 you learn all the basics and build on these skills through a certain level. Geometry came in between for everyone I've knows.. here you use the basic algebra skills in an otherwise...

You have Boolean operators (such as AND & OR) on variables, rather than mathematical operations (+ - etc). The variables can only have one of two states (values) though (True/False, on/off, 1/0).

Here's what the Online Etymology Dictionary says (etymology is the study of where words come from): "... from Arabic al jebr "reunion of broken parts," as in computation, used 9c(entury) by Baghdad...