What grade were you when when you started learning algebra?

[Bryophyte]

My daughter is good at math, so she got promoted to a fifth grade math class. She's in fourth grade (9 years old). She went from bored stiff to so excited that she meets me at the door telling me what she learned that day. She is learning algebra! WTF? I was in advanced classes for math when I was in school, and we started in about 7th grade. At this rate, she's going to pass her brother by, and he's in 8th grade.

 

[Crono]

fif grad

I din lerns english until 12st, tho

EDIT: correction, it was sixth, and it was basic stuff (standard operations of +-*/ with one or two variables). It was an advanced ("gifted", lol), though.

 

[pray4mojo]

7th and i was in an advanced class too

 

[Schadenfroh]

I was in the "gifted" program / advanced classes from mid-elementary till graduation from high school and I believe we started formally learning algebra in the 7th grade. Not sure about mainstream, we were rather... isolated from them.

 

[her209]

I have to say 7th grade. Maybe 6th grade at the earliest. Its been a while.

 

[Jeff7]

Uh.......let's see.

I think it was 8th grade for me.
12th Calc
11th Trig
10th Geometry
9th Alg II

Yeah, that would have been 8th grade then for the official start of Algebra.
I think it coincided with the introduction of negative numbers, which was rather odd at first, as was the use of letters in place of numbers.

Luckily I took to the process rather easily.

I was in the "gifted" program / advanced classes from mid-elementary till graduation from high school and I believe we started formally learning algebra in the 7th grade. Not sure about mainstream.

Similar here. Our "gifted" program struck me as just a way of taking some kids out and babysitting them elsewhere for awhile. Most of the stuff we did was rather.......useless. There really wasn't much of a budget for anything beyond basic arts and crafts supplies.

Sometime in early high school I stopped with the honors classes though; I didn't have plans for college at the time, and the advanced classes seemed to translate only to "more tedious homework/busywork plus summer reading," so I went down a notch (honors/academic/general). No more summer reading seemed like a great deal - academic English covered the exact same books, but they were read during the school year. At the time, that struck me as being much more efficient.
Later (as in several years after high school) I found out that the lower classes gave a lower total GPA score. Oh well.

 

[Ika]

Let's backtrack...
sophomore - calc ab
freshman - precalc
8th - adv alg
7th - geometry
6th - algebra

And I was two years ahead of my grade, too... jeez

 

[Crono]

I was in the "gifted" program / advanced classes from mid-elementary till graduation from high school and I believe we started formally learning algebra in the 7th grade. Not sure about mainstream, we were rather... isolated from them.

You were in a stare-at-goats program for the army, too?

Small world...

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Second form.

 

[TheVrolok]

5th was pre-alg
6th was Alg 1
7th was Alg 2
8th was Geo
9th was Trig for a semester and then Analytic Geo for a semester
10th was "College Alg" .. essentially Alg 3
11th was Calc AB/BC
12th was .. you know, I don't remember.. I think they just threw a survey course of advanced math together for a few of us. From what I remember I think it was a bit of linear alg, diff eq's, etc.

Pretty sure that's about right.

 

[Crono]

Second form.

That's roughly equal to what, 6th grade U.S.? Or what age would that be?

 

[Ika]

5th was pre-alg
6th was Alg 1
7th was Alg 2
8th was Geo
9th was Trig for a semester and then Analytic Geo for a semester
10th was "College Alg" .. essentially Alg 3
11th was Calc AB/BC
12th was .. you know, I don't remember.. I think they just threw a survey course of advanced math together for a few of us. From what I remember I think it was a bit of linear alg, diff eq's, etc.

Pretty sure that's about right.

is it just me or does that time line seem really screwed up?

 

[PhoKingGuy]

My 10 year old cousin in India is learning algebra2/trigonometry. Shes not even advanced, that's whats considered normal apparently

 

[child of wonder]

My son is in a gifted curriculum and is already being introduced to pre-algebraic methodology as a 2nd grader. They teach him things like "a variable is a letter that represents a number" and "if you have 2 apples and you need 5 apples, how many more apples do you need (2 + x = 5)?"

 

[Crono]

My 10 year old cousin in India is learning algebra2/trigonometry. Shes not even advanced, that's whats considered normal apparently

Yeah, they are more advanced in math early on over there.

 

[Crono]

My son is in a gifted curriculum and is already being introduced to pre-algebraic methodology as a 2nd grader. They teach him things like "a variable is a letter that represents a number" and "if you have 2 apples and you need 5 apples, how many more apples do you need (2 + x = 5)?"

Formal introduction to variables is a little advanced at that age, but algebraic reasoning and word problems like in your last sentence seems normal.

 

[Leros]

12th - Calculus
11th - Pre-calculus
10th - Algebra II
9th - Geometry
8th - Algebra I
7th - Pre-Algebra
6th - Advanced 6th math (still algebra stuff)
5th - Advanced 5th math (algebra stuff too)
4th - we were solving equations
3rd - first thing we did was learn the multiplication table

 

[pray4mojo]

5th was pre-alg
6th was Alg 1
7th was Alg 2
8th was Geo
9th was Trig for a semester and then Analytic Geo for a semester
10th was "College Alg" .. essentially Alg 3
11th was Calc AB/BC
12th was .. you know, I don't remember.. I think they just threw a survey course of advanced math together for a few of us. From what I remember I think it was a bit of linear alg, diff eq's, etc.

Pretty sure that's about right.

linear algebra and differential equations in high school?

 

[nageov3t]

6th or 7th sounds about right. I can't recall.

 

[Leros]

linear algebra and differential equations in high school?

We did some basic introductory diff eq at the end of my high school calculus class.

A few kids were a year ahead and were taking diffeq at the local college in 12th grade.

Its not unheard of, especially if he went to a academic oriented school.

 

[Chriscross3234]

7th/8th Algebra
9th Geometry
10th Algebra 2
11th Precalc
12th AP Stats

Calc 1,2,3 and DiffEq in college, and that just about covers all the math classes I'll be taking.

 

[TecHNooB]

6th grade. That's when my asian genes kicked in

 

[Bryophyte]

fif grad

I din lerns english until 12st, tho

EDIT: correction, it was sixth, and it was basic stuff (standard operations of +-*/ with one or two variables). It was an advanced ("gifted", lol), though.

That's what she's learning, and she's in TAG for math. I was in TAG, too, but we didn't start algebra in 4th grade. How fabulous for her that they recognize that kids can handle it at younger ages.

 

[TridenT]

6th grade - Pre-Algebra
7th grade - Pre-Algebra again... I got kicked out of Pre-Al pretty late in 6th because I wasn't doing the work(I was going through issues...).
8th grade - Algebra 1?
9th grade - Geometry
10th grade - Algebra 2
11th grade - Math Analysis(Pre-Calc? We didn't dive into integrals or anything like that)
12th grade - Calc I and Calc II (Seriously, I can't even remember anything from Calc... I haven't looked at it in forever. It would take me a good while to get it all back)

But I went to schools with really shitty funding and such small populations that there would never be enough students for the advanced classes... I would like it if Math and Science were pushed a lot more early on, but again it varies district to district... I was in a really poor school system. (In High School we had to go to 4 day weeks because we didn't have money for 5 days a week... Seriously, we were dirt-poor)

 

[jman19]

6th grade I believe.