Personal Narrative: Algebra

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I first saw "e" on my TI-36 calculator 2 years ago. I did not know what it was. Originally, my thought process told me that "e" was just an alternative symbol for pi that is only used in advanced and college math courses. But my brain decided that "e" was one of those an alphabetical variables I was seeing in my problems. (I was taking Algebra 1 at the time.). In that state of mind I used e in the same way I used a, b,c, d, x, y, z...etc... After a while, I started to notice that when I used "e" my answers were off and some didn't make any sense. So I wrote it of as a calculator error and never pressed the "e" button again.

Fast forward to now and in Unit 4 I run into "e" again. As you can imagine, e gave me fits back when I was taking Algebra

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