A few days ago
Anonymous

Need more info before I take a test!?

I’m taking a graduate course in Algebra. I have a test next week and I have a professor who speaks over our heads. We are suppose to know the different types of variables. Can anyone dumbify(easy to understand) terms.

Variables as Specific Unknown

Variables as Quantities that Vary in Relationship

Variables as Parameters (this one I totally don’t understand)

Variables as Generalized Numbers

Variables as Objects

I e-mailed my professor and told her that our book doesn’t explain it very well and I googled and yahooed these terms but couldn’t find anything that made sense. She e-mailed me back and agreed that google and yahoo didn’t have anything. She did say if she came across a better definition she would let me know. She did tell me to look in Middle School and High School Algebra I & Algebra II books, but I didn’t find anything about these types of variables. If anyone could help me I would be very gratefully

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A few days ago
Anonymous

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well thats not real fair. if your professor can’t even explain it to you how does she expect you to test on it. is there any way she could recommend a tutor or you could find someone who was in the class before to talk to? after all its your job as a student to study the material provided to you but if the material is inferior and the professor isn’t willing to or can’t help you, i dont know. that sucks, i am so bad at math. is there anyone else in your class that understands it?
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