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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wouldn't be too worried about when your kid takes Algebra.  I took Algebra in 9th grade and never took Calculus in high school. I ended up teaching statistics and game theory at the University level. Yes, I needed to work harder at math in college and grad school but I got there.

Mind you, I took a slower math path because of learning disabilities but I still got there.

This notion that your kid has to take Algebra in Junior High, and the sooner the better, is an artificial construct. There is plenty of time to take the more advanced math classes. If your child decides they want to go to Engineering school later on in high school, they can take the more advanced math classes at a Community College or even early on in College and then apply for Engineering programs. What matters is that they learn the material when they take the class. Rushing your child into math that they might struggle with is not going to help with their understanding.

If you child is able to handle that type of math earlier and they are learning and understanding the concepts earlier, more power to them, but that really is a smaller number of kids then people want to believe.
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There's so much criticism about how the US is so far behind other countries in math.  Nobody even considers that our push to move kids through the levels of math faster rather than focusing on a rock solid grounding in understanding every step along the way is (a) not solving the gap and (b) might be causing the gap.[/quote]

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