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To: OneWingedShark

My homeschooled 13yr is doing Algebra II. He is advanced by 1 yr. in math. I can’t imagine him doing Calculus at this age.


17 posted on 09/11/2013 4:41:20 PM PDT by stevio (God, guns, guts.)
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To: stevio
My homeschooled 13yr is doing Algebra II. He is advanced by 1 yr. in math. I can’t imagine him doing Calculus at this age.

You are slacking; algebra is easy and should be no trouble for a normal 10 year-old: as it is merely the extension of the basics of arithmetic with unknowns. Any marginally thoughtful individual could 'discover' algebra if they were trapped on a desert island and needed to manage supplies.

Calculus is a bit more of a mind-bender and ought to be taught young. Many of its rules are non-intuitive — like why should the area under the curve be related to the slope of the curve at that point? (Granted trig is a bear; but elsewise using calculus [after getting those non-intuitive rules down] is mostly just algebra.)

29 posted on 09/11/2013 4:55:24 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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