Symbolic language

Symbolic language

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Published in Phillip A. Laplante, Dictionary of Computer Science, Engineering, and Technology, 2017

symbolic language a programming language expressing operations, instructions, and addresses by using symbols that can be understood by humans rather than in machine language. Assembly as well as all the high level languages are symbolic languages.

Using math magic to reinforce algebraic concepts: an exploratory study

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Published in International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2019

Kien H. Lim

‘Yes, these activities have most definitely allowed me to become much more interested and appreciative of algebra and the many uses it provides to us’ (S7).‘Finding the secret number was so much easier when we used algebra’ (S10).‘Algebra allows us to turn written language into symbolic language. It allows me to concisely state what is happening mathematically to the variable I am focusing on. It allows me to effectively come to a series of steps that perform all the same operations in a condensed form’ (S12).

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