I need math help

[scrapperjade]

Ok seriously people. Do your kids learn advanced algebra in grade 6 and do calculus in Junior year??? LOL!

Maybe it's because I live in a tiny podunk town in the middle of nowhere, but I never even learned this stuff by the time I graduated high school! In grade 3 we were JUST beginning to learn our multiplication, and in grade 4, the most complicated thing we did were beginner fractions & decimals!

[kscwgirl]

where's aaron when you need him?

This whole thread makes my head hurt.

[LeeAndra]

The rainbow-maned unicorn that lives inside my heart just died after I read this thread.

[KristinCB]

Originally Posted by scrapperjade

Ok seriously people. Do your kids learn advanced algebra in grade 6 and do calculus in Junior year??? LOL!

Maybe it's because I live in a tiny podunk town in the middle of nowhere, but I never even learned this stuff by the time I graduated high school! In grade 3 we were JUST beginning to learn our multiplication, and in grade 4, the most complicated thing we did were beginner fractions & decimals!

That is how it was for me growing up too jae.. I have no idea what the curriculum is like for 4th grade here where I am but I have a feeling (99% sure) it isn't this advanced.. I do believe on a whole canada's curriculum is behind what is learned in the states.. I have no idea if that is good or not. LOL

Sometimes I think getting so advanced is just TOO much. Kids still need to be taught common math - accounting etc.. I remember in highschool the higher math class just focused on calculus and geometry and algebra... nothing at all that was actually useful in day to day life :/

I hate math..

[scrapperjade]

I hate math too Kristin!! I hated all the algebra stuff we had to do in high school (which sounds like grade school stuff for US kids!)!