Dear Banjo,

Blame my spellchecker not Freud for slipping in unwanted corrections, when I mistype a word.

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Dear George,

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Thanks for the explanation.

So it was a “lapsus clavis” (slip of the keyboard).

I understand.

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I know I am at fault at times by not following the authors posting correctly but Algebra has nothing to do with this posting, or am I missing something along the way
OLO is for the subject as given.

THE MORALITY..OF..THE ONE..and the zero/reminds me its april 1
[AS PER the law/of\APRIL ONE]..IT FEELS AS THOUGH THE TRINITY IS TIME WARPED arc as per the valie of pie

heres mud in ya eye

#7: Alabama Changes the Value of Pi

The *April 1998 issue of the New Mexicans for Science and Reason newsletter contained an article claiming that the Alabama state legislature had voted to change the value of the mathematical constant pi from 3.14159 to the 'Biblical value' of 3.0.

further detail/deleted..[word/limits]

we can use letters and symbols
to name and describe the predictable world around us.

so/What about all the rules?
A large portion of algebra textbooks focus on rules and conventions. Each “rule” is one standardized convention to represent a real-life consistency.

For years men did not use our current conventions at all! The graphic shows some different ways an algebraic equation has been expressed.

Why does algebra often seem so meaningless?

So often, algebra students completely miss seeing the amazing consistency algebra records because they get lost in the mechanics.

As Morris Kline points out, “The usefulness of the techniques of algebra has caused many people to mistake the means for the end and to emphasize these menial techniques to the exclusion of the larger ideas and goals of mathematics.

The students who are bored by the processes of algebra are more perceptive than those who have mistakenly identified algebraic processes with mathematics.” [Morris Kline, Mathematics and the Physical World (1959; repr. and slightly corrected, Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 1981), p. 68.]

Conclusion
As you teach algebra, beware of emphasizing the means (i.e., the rules and conventions) to the point that your student loses site of algebra’s purpose–to record consistent relationships.

Remember to let your mind pause and consider the greatness, power, and consistency of the God who, day in and day out, governs all things consistently enough for us to record general relationships and expect them to hold true in various situations. His power, might, and faithfulness truly know no bounds!

Dear Ojnab,

I apologise. I shouldn't have posted. Algebra is much interesting to me than the subject.

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Dear david f.,

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Thank you for your brief explanation of Boolean algebra. I thought that was what was called binary code but don’t worry, I can live with my ignorance.

I’ll take a look at that article on Leibniz’s influence on 19th century logic you indicated a little later.

I don’t want to upset Ojnab but I agree it looks quite interesting. No offence meant to Max Atkinson, of course.

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