Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Call Webster

Yesterday I was tutoring one of my sophomore students and we were working on Algebra. 

I asked him, "What does it mean when a number and a variable are right next to each other, as in '5n'?" 

He replied, "Oh, that means that the '5' and the 'n' are timezin'." 

Well said. 

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