Confessions of Nerdery

January 13, 2011 at 8:15 pm (Essay) ()

I dig Algebra. It’s my favorite form of math. I aced Algebra I and II.

3x + 4 = 12 … Solve for x

I like problem solving stuff and answering questions where you can go back and verify, knowing immediately if your answer is right or wrong. When a test was over, you basically knew if you were acing it, or if you were failing it. You can plug what you think your answer is, and see if the number on the left side ends up equaling that on the right. Yes? Then you got it right. No surprises.

I guess for someone who always was more of the creative type, writing stories and scribbling drawings, it’s somewhat unconventional to also have a giddiness about algebra.

But even to this day, though I haven’t done Algebra in over a decade, I find myself wanting to go to a used book store and look for an old high school Algebra book to buy.

Just so I can go back and try some of the problems in it and see if it all comes back to me.

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