We all know them, but we don’t all love them: the horrible Word Problem.

How do we need to look at complex math problems as people and still make sense of it all?

Rational expressions (aka fractions) can be scary to see on the page.

In this episode of Study Hall: Algebra, James walks us through a bit of history and practical math.

Irrational numbers sound unnatural, but they can actually be found all around us in the simplest shapes.

It’s intuitive to think about squaring or doubling something. It’s just a number multiplied by itself.

In this episode of Study Hall: Algebra we’ll pull out our magnifying glasses and use detective work (and the best method: the box method) to multiply and factor polynomials.

In this episode of Study Hall: Algebra, James demystifies logarithms!

If you’ve had much experience with Algebra and Geometry, you know that graphs are a thing.

In this episode of Study Hall: Algebra, James talks to us about what exactly the Quadratic Equation is doing and how we can make it much more simple for ourselves.

There’s a wealth of information hidden where two equations have the same solutions, and graphing and seeing where two curves intersect can guide us there faster.

In this episode of Study Hall: Algebra, James talks about how graphing the Quadratic Equation works.

In this episode of Study Hall: Algebra, we’ll tweak the techniques we’ve learned in our last two episodes on graphing — like employing symmetry and plugging in points to plot data — to graph just about everything else we might encounter in college algebra.

In this episode of Study Hall Algebra, we’ll combine our linear and quadratic graphing skills to find meaning in these messes of data — because all data can tell us something.

In this, our final episode of Study Hall: Algebra, James will try and explain why zero is a tricky number and how its use has evolved over time.