Delta-K,  From Your Council,  Volume 44, Issue 2

From the President’s Pen

Journal of the Mathematics Council of the Alberta Teachers’ Association

Volume 44 Issue 2, June 2007

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From the President’s Pen

Janis Kristjansson

Algebra has become the new Latin. In the past, the ability to master the classic languages of Latin and Greek was seen as an indication that a person had the intellectual ability to deal with higher education. Of course, knowledge of Latin and Greek also meant that a person had money and had been educated in the finest fashion.