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Sometimes in algebra you will use the initial letter of a word to stand in for that word. For example, the area of a square can be found by multiplying the length by the length.

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Can a video game make your kid smarter? Can a video game teach your kid math? Jean-Baptiste Huynh’s Dragonbox app “tricks” kids into thinking algebra is fun. Or maybe algebra is fun and Dragonbox is ...