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...
al- jebr (the reunion of fragments)THE PATRIOT HASN'T SUSSED IT YET,BUT EMBUSQUES' SMIRK ON THE TV SETS,IS THE MISSING PIECE OF THE JIGSAW JETS: curly (poet in a paper bag)
Math is taught like this: Pre-Algebra, Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra 2, Pre-Calculus, Calculus, Trigonometry. Algebra I is similar to Algebra 2, but Algebra 2 has more difficult concepts, such as...