Talk:Algebra/Variables

I just rewrote the page. As such an archived the previous discussions relating to the old page. There is a lot left to be added, specifically there should be a rather lengthy problems section. I am now thinking that order of operations should wait until its own section? We shall see. Thenub314 (talk) 08:57, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

Natural numbers
A recent edit changed "whole numbers" to "natural numbers" in a few places. This made sense because the text then gave as examples of whole numbers 1, 2, 3, … etc. I really wanted to stick with the term "whole" because I felt is was a bit more familiar, and I wanted to keep the terminology friendly at least until the formal definitions that come later in Sets. Thenub314 (talk) 21:00, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

Set notation
Hi I was hoping to remove the symbols { and } from the paragraph here. I wanted to avoid using set notation until after it is introduced section on sets a bit later on in the book. As the students I taught often don't understand what the notation means. I also was hoping to change leading sentence in Evaluating expressions to emphasize the idea that "variables are numbers". But I wanted to make sure there were no objections. Thenub314 (talk) 15:04, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

Editorial Opinions Welcome
I have no objection to any changes you want to make to the Algebra book.

I am currently working my way through it trying to make it "more conversational" while still keeping the rigor. The set notation is probably a style remnant from initializing arrays. Nfgdayton (talk) 19:30, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

Need to at least add answers to the problems given.
There are no answers given for teh problems shown at the bottom of th spage. This is needed. More practice problems would be nice as well. Kweeks (talk) 11:35, 6 September 2010 (UTC)