prealgebra
- noun
- /priˈælɡəbrə/
- US
:
curso de preálgebra
- Team Accelerated Instruction, which is specifically designed for mathematics in grades three through six or prealgebra for older students, also uses four-member teams and rewards for high team performance.
Examples
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Many students take prealgebra in middle school to prepare for high school math courses.
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By fourth grade, the school placed her with eighth-graders for prealgebra, and she stayed with the older kids for language arts.
Fiction book (2001) -
In this introduction, we provide background information on prealgebra and its possible connections to CAL and WPs.
Academic text (2015) -
About one-third of the Special Program students who came to the 1991 summer program had completed a prealgebra course in school; two-thirds had completed algebra.
Academic text (1996) -
The students who had completed prealgebra reported receiving above-average—but not A-level—grades.
Academic text (1996) -
Although the district allowed accelerated students to take Algebra in the eighth grade, the majority of students took compensatory math or Prealgebra in eighth grade and moved on to Algebra or Transitions to Algebra in the ninth grade.
Academic text (2015) -
The teacher explained that prealgebra covers essential mathematical concepts needed for algebra.
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Completing a prealgebra course helps students build a strong foundation for future math classes.
Antonyms
- Specialized
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A part of math that uses letters to stand for numbers and rules for doing calculations
How Advanced
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Prealgebra is made of pre- 'before' and algebra, from Arabic al-jabr meaning 'putting broken parts together'. So prealgebra is a basic math course that comes 'before' algebra to prepare students to combine numbers and solve simple equations.