Math Has a second Language? Symbols!

I choose 'w/o' over 'without' for one obvious reason. Symbols are quicker!

Help your child with math w/o knowing the math.

Think of ‘w/o’ as a symbol that allows me to shorten the word without, and that shortening enables me to write it quicker. Without and w/o are like synonyms, so of course, they have the same meaning, and I’ll define the word, without, to mean, ‘not having something.’
Summary: ‘Not having something’ gets shortened to the word without, and the word without gets shortened to the symbol w/o; all three are interchangeable.  

So where is this all going? You may want to sit down as I’m about to send you another zinger. You now know that math is a language as it has words, however, math is made up of a second language. If you didn’t fall off your chair, perhaps you should have done a forced fall, as this is a big deal.

What’s the second language?

SYMBOLS! Math is also the language of symbols. Math is the language of symbols. I said it! Math is the language of symbols, as the majority of math words can be written as a symbol or symbols (e.g. Area is A, Percent is %, Rate is /, Add is +). And that shortening, like short-hand back in the day, allows your child to