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Course: College Algebra > Unit 8
Lesson 3: Reducing rational expressions to lowest termsCreativity break: When did you first realize that you liked algebra
Experts share when they first realized that they liked algebra and mathematics. Created by Khan Academy.
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Me: NEVER!!
They were told to say that or maybe not(10 votes)- Or maybe they really like it.(6 votes)
- How is this the first question?(7 votes)
- because u and me and other few people were the only ones to watch this video(5 votes)
- I bet this video has like 50 views even while being on Khan Academy. Literally no one has watched it lol.(6 votes)
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- Why would they even have this I'm pretty sure not very many people like Algerbra they just use it because they have to(1 vote)
Video transcript
(whimsical electronic music) (clicking) - One day, my family
was building this fence around my chicken coop. 'Cause there were problems with raccoons. And we wanted to make sure
that the perimeter of the fence was twice the the length of the width. And I remember thinking, "This is exactly like my algebra class. "I'm actually doing
things that are useful." Algebra wasn't just something
that you do on paper, it was actually protecting
the lives of my chickens. So I felt like that was a moment for me where math is useful to the world, and we're solving real problems with it, and it's really powerful. - So I realized that
I first liked algebra, and just math in general,
my first year in college, I was a little bit of a late bloomer in realizing the importance of math. I was taking an early statistics course for my psychology degree. And I really began to understand how the concepts that I were learning could help me understand
the world around me better in a more concrete, fluid, and rich way. And so being able to make that connection from these things that I'm
learning in the classroom out into the real world, so that I can under understand
different phenomenon, I can understand how various
things in our culture work and progress, really helped me and made me feel like I
had a deeper understanding for the importance of math and algebra. And from that point I've
really been in love.