Algebra, the Gamechanger of Mathematics

[@Mattslayerable]

I'm becoming a math teacher and this video was very insightful on how to introduce algebra from the basics, thanks!

[@abdelrahmanabdelfadeel4277]

Same here! What a coincidence!!!

[@kristofferh2312]

Amen!

[@user-ef5id9km3p]

Mr Woo's teaching style is gamechanging. I'm in my forties and I only did math to Year 11 (Year 10 in Oz, at my school you had to choose between math or history, I loved both and in the end I chose history, I wish I had chosen math). And when I tried to pick up math again at University for a science degree I struggled immensely with algebra. This is the first time it has all made sense to me, noone ever told me the 'rules/tools' or 'reasoning' behind algebra, it would have made all the difference. It's true what they say, math for many depends largely upon the teacher you get. Thank you Mr Woo, you truly are a gifted teacher, your students are blessed to have you for a teacher. I hope they realise that.

[@houssamhammoudi1982]

Hey Eddie, I love your videos by the way. Just a correction, algebra was invented in the 9th century by muhammad ibn moussa alkhawarezmi and he even wrote a book about it called "kitab al jabr" the book of al jabr its way older than the 1500's. To be exact its 825 CE he wrote another book called "hisab aljabr wal muqabala".

[@blacksnow7106]

I think what he meant was how math problems are actually approached, the method was never widely used Even when the depressed Cubic equation was figured out, which is in the 1500s, Tartaglia wrote down as a poem instead of an algebraic equation Edit: to continue Woo's metaphor, it's like the gunpowder. Gunpowder has been used in East Asia for a loooooooong time until the West use them for guns, then it become gamechanger

[@ShabnoorMaved]

Arab scientists were great, which gets never spoken about .. it's sad .. because if today we adopted their methods of research and development we would have created more creative and beautiful things than destructive ones ..

[@Filipas-el9sp]

hello Eddie, I just wanna say in 6:35 you have told that these words come from Latin, but they are actually Greek. Trigonometry has trigono and metry, metry means counting and trigono means triangle in Greek. Same goes for Geometry, Geography, Mathematics etc.

[@Ddyjd]

give it a break . what r your qualuifications

[@Mustafa_Shahzad]

@@Ddyjd what are you talking about? 😆 he just made a simple, respectful correction. also, it is spelled "qualifications"

[@Ken.-]

I wonder if that kid ever found out what X-rays are?

[@qflexmoves]

That car and plane analogy was a bar.

[@NeilPhillips]

Very useful.Thanks for sharing this information

[@pocojoyo]

How can he mantain that level of enthusiasm ?

[@pocojoyo]

@Night shade No, asshole. That doesn't have anything to do,

[@Krecconati]

Genuine passion.

[@wheelyperson6862]

i wish more maths teachers taught like this!

[@Johan-rm6ec]

Emphasize Eddie how important it also is for game development and math in a whole. Students need to connect with why mathematics is important and their practical implementations.

[@williamjones9706]

You are a great teacher!

[@dannybaseball2444]

Four years later I want to smack that guy that's talking in the head with an eraser.

[@oceanhu9332]

I laughed every time when I heard a guy sneezing at the back

[@freeroamer9768]

god I wish this guy was my highschool teacher.

[@ProofDetectives]

Asslam o alikum. Thank you for this video. Have a nice week to anyone reading this.

[@Matt-sc6gg]

wow, most teachers would say- "you hate algebra, what an excuse" or something like that but this guy understands why kids fail to understand algebra. WOW also, after 3000-5000 years due to Charles Darwin's theory of human evolution, human brains are gonna be really well-developed for algebra! HAH! Even 5-year-olds would find calculus a piece of cake then!!!

[@Ian-og3cr]

So helpful

[@maryamabidi6095]

everyone: correcting and thanking Eddieme: hey u spelt broken wrong

[@wheelyperson6862]

when you say the 1500s do you mean that algebra was introduced to europe at that time?

[@tracylykins6825]

Eddie Woo's teaching videos are great! The student chatter while their very excellent teacher presents the lesson is absolutely infuriating!

[@aradhyasrivastava4602]

👍 maths teacher

[@mrtams24]

Thanks

[@sadiabinterahmanrahman9675]

if i could be seen this class to my boring math teachers!!!

[@kodirovsshik]

That's so annoying how the audience is super disrespectfull and makes a lot of noise while he is trying to teach them something

[@lemoneater6690]

no sh*t there students

[@talgoam]

@@lemoneater6690 they're*

[@NbSpd-us8cm]

Eddie: there are 6 slices. Me: THERE ARE 8!!

[@rachelriesling9112]

So if someone said I need algebra in my heart…they have a broken heart🤔

[@Reem-op6ws]

I wish if I could give you double Or triple like for this explanation

[@goddesssara7336]

thank you

[@thisisdk7859]

how fast I'll disappear if you sneeze in during corona 2020 2:32

[@thisisdk7859]

interesting that he wrote the reuninon of broken parts in cursive.

[@petergalvi]

I'm sorry I'm sure this is brilliant but I don't get it. The basic premise is lost on me. Why do we NEED Algebra? What does it provide?

[@lemoneater6690]

problem solving

[@SolCrown80]

So, so, so many things. You probably do it without even knowing it. If you see something on sale at a store and the new price is 25 marked down from 50, you know it is 50% off. But what you really did is 50 * x = 25 and solved for x -- it's just an easy problem. Or if your monthly budget for something is $250 and you've just spent $175, when you figure out what you have left you're basically doing 175 + x= 250. But that's just the most basic every day stuff. In truth, algebra is used for virtually everything. You can hardly solve any problem at all without using it. Any sort of engineering or programming or financing would be impossible without it. It's essential and basic quantitative reasoning.

[@Theagchm]

You not know how to control a class?! This is hard to listen to....your students have no respect?!

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[@MrGreensweightHist]

From an algebra teacher who can't even do orders of operation 😂

[@dinoaurus1]

What is this referring to

[@MrGreensweightHist]

@@dinoaurus1 Another video of his where he screws up orders of operations thinking it is Multiplication THEN division not Multiplication AND division

[@dinoaurus1]

@@MrGreensweightHist can you point out the specific video

[@MrGreensweightHist]

@@dinoaurus1 It ahs been a month, so I fear I don't remember exactly which video it was.

[@dinoaurus1]

@@MrGreensweightHist in his video on order of operation he does say that division and multiplication are done at the same time around the 9:50 mark

[@146love7]

No

[@memory530]

Bruh

[@troyb4533]

Algebra is the greatest thing I was ever exposed to.