Algebra

Any subject can be fantastic if you know how to do it and a teacher marks your work and then tells you how well you have done. The beauty of mathematics is that if you tell your teacher that 2 + 2 = 4 then you are right and nobody can take that away from you. I was watching Britain's got talent and you may be the person who gets the audience on its feet, but there may be some people who don't like what you do and turn the TV off. Just look at this algebraic equation and see how simple it is.

Algebra is a branch of mathematics that substitutes letters for numbers. You can have some equations like x + y = 3 and x - y = 1, and you may be able to see at once that x is 2 and y is 1. Very often in maths it is not the answer that is important but how you get the answer. If you know how to do something then you can always do it but you can always make simple errors however good your maths is.

When you see an equals sign you know that the left side of the equation is equal to the right. If you add something to the left then it remains equal if you add the same number to the right. If you now add those two equations together you get 2x (y-y is zero) = 3 +1. If that is right then you divide both sides by 2 and you get x = 2. I hope you followed each step.

That sums it up.