(US, education, uncountable) A school (in the US, middle school) course that introduces students to concepts needed to learn algebra.
2000, Alfred S. Posamentier, Making Pre-Algebra Come Alive, Sage Publications (Corwin Press), [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=fQDW8Qx35AAC&pg=PA1&dq=%22Pre-algebra%22%7C%22Prealgebra%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKE…
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(mathematics, countable) A particular form of Lie algebra; also applied analogously to other types of algebra.
: In most secondary school curricula, pre-algebra is the last course in which specific attention is paid to multiplication, division, squares, cubes, and primes. Thereafter, these skills and operations are pretty much taken for granted.
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