My cousin dropped out at 16 about 25 years ago. I was enlisted to try to "turn him around". He was on the home study... opened the same history book I had in Grade 10 and pointed to IT...

And I quote, "The ice age began December 18th, ..."

I said, "Buddy, good luck with it. Yer smarter than I was."

End of my involvement.

Now, as far as algebra and math... I am an engineer. So, all I can say is, enjoy the water supply, the sewers, the roads, the lights, the heat, the EVERYTHING that engineers have built using numbers and logic... that is why you are reading these words right now.... The Invisible E.

Yer welcome.