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My DC is completing 6th grade at the moment, and is in the regular old boring 6th grade math.  Not advanced at all.  And yet, she is currently doing algebra.  It is relatively simple algebra -- things like solving

6x + 2 = 3y

But you know, when I was a child back in the dark ages, that counted as algebra.  I was in the most accelerated math courses that were available in my town, and I didn't see anything like that until 8th grade.  I realize that things have changed a lot since then, buy my point is that there is significant algebra content in the regular 6th grade offering, and I suspect there is even more in the more advanced 6th grade offerings.  
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Yep.  My HGC kid is seeing this in compacted Math 4/5.  I was also one of the most accelerated kids in my school district, and I didn't do algebra until 8th grade (but to do that, I went to the local university and doubled up classes each year: algebra/geometry in 8th, trig and math analysis (pre-calc) in 9th and calculus in 10th).  The normal path finished with pre-calc in 12th, and the honors track finished with calc in 12th.[/quote]

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