Stamets@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 9 months agoQuick quick quicklemmy.worldimagemessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up1189arrow-down16
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minus-squarevexikron@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down1·edit-29 months agoIts time for the concept of a ‘variable’! 2 + a = 5 In this example, the variable is indicated by the letter a. What you want to do is make it so ‘a’ is on one side of the = and a numerical value is on the other side. One way we can do this is by subtracting 2 from both sides. Left side: 2 + a - 2 gives us ‘a’ Right side: 5 - 2 gives us 3 Thus we are left with a = 3 Tada! /and then somehow, something like half or more of currently living Americans can barely pull off anything more complicated than this./
minus-squareCrack0n7uesday@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-29 months agoI think I had that book in high school back in the late 90’s early 2000’s, it goes up to the quadratic equation and maybe logarithms and matrices.
Its time for the concept of a ‘variable’!
2 + a = 5
In this example, the variable is indicated by the letter a.
What you want to do is make it so ‘a’ is on one side of the = and a numerical value is on the other side.
One way we can do this is by subtracting 2 from both sides.
Left side: 2 + a - 2 gives us ‘a’
Right side: 5 - 2 gives us 3
Thus we are left with
a = 3
Tada!
/and then somehow, something like half or more of currently living Americans can barely pull off anything more complicated than this./
I think I had that book in high school back in the late 90’s early 2000’s, it goes up to the quadratic equation and maybe logarithms and matrices.