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Originally Posted by gstelmack
Teach algebra sooner, not tack it on as an extra class hour during the school day.
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Takes me back to my point though, there's a difference between
presenting it and having students able to
learn it.
We've got a shortage of students who know what to do with "c", "a", and "t" in
words, wtf makes anyone think they'd know what to do with them as
numbers?
As I mentioned (which I hadn't posted before your comment), they already start seeing it in 3rd grade even in the backasswards clusterfuck that are Georgia schools, how much earlier can it really go?
Also as I mentioned, my son's class is roughly 1-2 years ahead of the state norm already. And while I didn't see even basic algebra until the 8th grade (circa 1980) he's seen basic algebra for several years already. But that has come at the expense of things that I had much earlier (such as understanding the relationship between fractions & division; a/b = a divided by b) not coming until the past year or even not fully yet at all.