GPT has made the noticeable impact on research of solving algebra problems. In order to fuse the good features of GPT with the traditional methods to design better algorithms, this paper analyzes the approaches of solving algebra problems to understand their abstractive features. To this end, this paper classifies the approaches by means of state-transit analysis and then reveals their abstractive features such as assumptions and scopes from the algorithm descriptions. It further analyzes their application-related features such as readability. The tables are built to compare the features of th...