Current Events > USA Only: What grade did you take Algebra I?

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I personally took Algebra in 8th grade because my school didn't even offer it any earlier.

But around where I am now most students do Algebra I in 8th grade and it seems LESS rare for a student to do Algebra I in 7th grade than it was at my old school for a student to do it in 8th.

I suddenly began to wonder what year my fellow GameFAQs users took Algebra I and how they feel about when they took it. Would you like to have taken it earlier? Would you have rathered waiting an extra year to take it?

International people can feel free to post as well, but the poll options should be answered by people who took Algebra I in USA schools only.
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don't remember
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9th..

I was/still am terrible at Math.
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7th, but I was a decided outlier in doing so. I became even more of an outlier by moving on to Calculus by 9th grade.
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8th grade was the earliest it was offered at my school, and was actually considered advanced (the usual path had students taking pre-algebra in 8th grade).

8th?

But that was like 15 years ago so idk

Actually yeah must have been 8th because I took geometry freshman year
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Pre-Algebra in 8th grade, Algebra in 9th grade. Everything was a year earlier for the honors students, and I was about to be put in honors math starting from 6th grade, but for some reason I wasn't.
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8th. that was the earliest it was available at my school.
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Algebra I in 7th, Geometry in 8th, Algebra II in 9th, Statistics in 10th, Pre Calc in 11th, and Calc in 12th

9th. I was always bad to average at math.
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Khalpz posted...

don't remember

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"My options doesn't exist"

Oops. Pluralization typo.
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darkmaian23 posted...

8th grade was the earliest it was offered at my school, and was actually considered advanced (the usual path had students taking pre-algebra in 8th grade).

I always did very well in math at school and at competitions, but subjectwise I didn't advance that quickly. I didn't know a thing about Calculus until spring of my 10th grade year, when I encountered an integral symbol on a generic math test (not one specific to a particular course) and asked my other math genius friend a year older about it.

I then "caught up" by learning all of Calc 1, 2, and 3 by the end of February of 11th grade. And then I was lazier in 12th grade.

My math learning curve is strangely shaped.
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DreamwaIker posted...

I then "caught up" by learning all of Calc 1, 2, and 3 by the end of February of 11th grade.

I don't believe you.
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fireball2020 posted...

Algebra II in 9th, Statistics in 10th, Pre Calc in 11th,

Would you have been allowed to double-up on Statistics and PreCalc the same year?
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8th? I'm not sure if it was even called that, but I took IB Geometry in 9th, IB Alg 2+Trig 10th, IB PreCal 11th, IB Cal 12th
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UnholyMudcrab posted...

DreamwaIker posted...

I then "caught up" by learning all of Calc 1, 2, and 3 by the end of February of 11th grade.

I don't believe you.

Larson 8th edition pretty shiny cover. 3 and a half notebooks full of problems worked from the books. My dad bought me the solution manuals too.

My drive to do it stemmed from placing 1st at a state math competition in Precalculus in 10th grade but then not even getting a single trophy in any event in Precalculus at the National version of the competition. I knew the national competition didn't subdivide students into Calc 1 and Calc 2+ so I would be competing against people already with a lot of experience - I wanted to step up my game to be sure I got some kind of placement in 11th, and I did.

Disclaimer: I think this particular competition (National Mu Alpha Theta) took place at the same time as MOSP many years, so it's quite possible the 40 best students in the country were taken out of the equation. Also, "national" was really only like 13 states.

Edit: Thank you, Internet, for having these posted.

2006 (11th grade):
Page 11. 3rd in Mu (Calculus) Division
http://www.mualphatheta.org/useruploads/files/conventionpastresults/fortcollinseverythingelse.pdf

Unfortunately it doesn't look like I took the Advanced Calculus (Calc 3) topic test that year, but I did take the test the next year.

2007 (12th grade):
Page 50. 4th in Advanced Calculus (Mu Division topic test)
http://www.mualphatheta.org/useruploads/files/conventionpastresults/tampatopictests.pdf
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While it wouldn't completely prove it, I could show my transcript that I never took Calculus 3 as a college course. I tested out of it and took Differential Equations my first semester in Fall 2007.

I'm not sure if I still have my old notebooks with worked problems around anywhere, so idk if I can get photo evidence of them. They may be in a box somewhere.

But I really did make this topic just to hear when other people took Algebra I. Not to brag about past me (and present me sure as hell isn't anything to brag about).

(Of course I have a bad habit of derailing my own topics. Looks like I've done it here too with all my editing.)
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DreamwaIker posted...

fireball2020 posted...

Algebra II in 9th, Statistics in 10th, Pre Calc in 11th,

Would you have been allowed to double-up on Statistics and PreCalc the same year?

Probably. Would have let me graduated early if so, but then I wouldn't have been able to be a teacher's aid in a different class, and I chose to do that instead.

fenderbender321 posted...

I should have taken Algebra 1 when I was in 6th grade

There is 1 student at the math enrichment place where I work that I know took Algebra in 6th at his private school (he's now in Geometry in 7th).

And I think in some other parts of the world having the better math students learn Algebra in 6th grade is not unusual. But I couldn't tell you any hard facts.
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The regular path in my school

8th : Pre-Algebra
9th : Algebra 1
10th: Geometry
11th: Algebra 2
12th: Math not required but you had a choice of Algebra 3, Pre-Calculus, and a few other math related classes. You couldn't take Calculus unless you had already taken Pre-Calc.
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Freshman year, maybe? I cheated and slept through all those classes in high school, so I dunno.
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9th - Algebra 1
10th - Geometry
11th - Algebra 2
12th - Trigonometry
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darkmaian23 posted...

8th grade was the earliest it was offered at my school, and was actually considered advanced (the usual path had students taking pre-algebra in 8th grade).

This. I took regular math in 7th grade and around the end of the school year they gave us a test of what they deemed 'pre algebra'. This was actually the final for the advanced 7th grade math class unbeknownst to our class. I helped my older brother with his 8th grade math homework so I breezed through that shit and gpt placed in Algebra 1 for 8th grade.
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I was dumb and accidentally voted 5 instead of 8. I remembered doing it a year early and realized after I voted that it was before high school not before middle school.
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Iron-Tarkus posted...

I was dumb and accidentally voted 5 instead of 8. I remembered doing it a year early and realized after I voted that it was before high school not before middle school.

A simple math mistake. :) Anyone could have made it.

Anyway, thanks for the post. I'll keep that in mind in the results. I figure 5th and 4th were so rare I might as well not even include them (as are 11th and 12th so late I might as well not include them), but it is in part a guard against troll answers. If I offer extreme and uber-extreme options then the trolls will more likely go for the uber-extreme and therefore I may still get some decent data on the normal extreme.
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9th grade until 12th grade where I finally made it to Geometry. <_<
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7th, if I remember right. But I was consistently on the advanced track until my senior year of high school (when I decided to take a bunch of fun fluff classes because I could), so I took a bunch of math classes early. Even took AP Calculus my junior year.
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Grade 10.
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Can't remember if it was 6th or 7th
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8th. It was an advanced course, so freshmen were there too
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Think for us it went:

7th: Pre-Algebra
8th: Pre-Algebra
9th: Algebra I
10th: Geometry
11th: Algebra II/Trig
12th: N/A, but Pre-Calc/Statistics was offered.
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I want to say 8th. I took geometry im 9th, Algebra 2 in 10th, stats in 11th, and some BS math course that basically amounted to a study hall in 12th for the last semester. SAT math prep or something.
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