Teacher: Rebecca Lacey
School: Bethel High School, Bethel, CT

Excerpt from artist’s Impact Statement: “I chose to emphasize this golden, foundational text that Muhammad provided for modern Algebra and the domain of algorithmic thinking. Since he did not use our standard way of algebraic notations, I explicitly incorporated his diagrams instead in my piece and the Hindu-Arabic numeral system he translated."

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