On Monday night October 20, 2021, I tutored a student over zoom.\u00a0 I helped tutor her for her upcoming geometry test.\u00a0 The session was only one hour.\u00a0 We spent most of the session going over her study sheet.\u00a0 I noticed one mistake in her notes about reflections and rotations, so I helped her most with that section.\u00a0 We also went over some problems she had.\u00a0 This was my second time tutoring this student.\u00a0 She seems like she usually knows the material but she does not seem to work very hard and she does not turn her work in.\u00a0 I will now talk a little bit about Islam\u2019s contributions to mathematics because I do not have much more to write about with this tutoring session.<\/p>\n
During the Middle Ages Islam was experiencing a \u201cgolden age\u201d.\u00a0 During the Golden Age of Islam many mathematic advances were made by Muslim scholars in the House of Wisdom in Baghdad.\u00a0 Fractions were developed to use in place of decimals, algebra was also first studied, and advances in trigonometry and geometry were made.\u00a0 One notable figure is Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, who is known as a father of algebra.\u00a0 He developed ways to solve roots, polynomial equations, and reduction.\u00a0 His book was written in full sentences before symbols were used.<\/p>\n
Another notable mathematician was Abu-Mahmud Khojandi who is credited with discovering the law of sines.\u00a0 Negative numbers were also further explored during this time.\u00a0 Irrational numbers were also used more during this time, but not extensively.\u00a0 Before this era in mathematics, the Greeks used geometry as a way to solve mathematical problems.\u00a0 During the Golden Age of Islam, the Islamic scholars were able to move away from the geometrical solutions to what we are now more familiar with, algebra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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