Replying to @Midnight_Dreams
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Idk how Common Core was taught in 6th grade in my state (I was in private school, we had different books and curriculum), but we didn’t learn 2-variable equations for another year - 7th grade.America is kinda behind, 2-variable equations are in Algebra I, which is usually taken in 9th grade (freshman year). I’ve heard from my parents that in Taiwan’s public schools, they taught trigonometry/pre-calc in 9th grade (kinda what I learned in freshman yr)- stuff that follows what I learn in each grade level bc I take advanced math courses and hence, share classes with ppl older than me (like ppl in 11th and 12th grade). And yeah, there are quite a few Asians like me in the courses lmao.
I’m in AP Calc now, and idk if we’ll even use the number i
. From what I’ve heard, calculus is just derivatives and integrals. Last year it was a pretty short intro of that number, so I don’t know much about it either.
Oh yeah, and to address the huge chunks of topics vs. tons of different topics, I learned a bunch of different topics in elementary school. The Saxon Math book was organized by lesson, and each lesson could be totally different than the next. It was slightly unpredictable, and you could be talking about slopes of lines in one lesson and probability the next. We used that book for another year (6th grade). Although in algebra class and later geometry, we did get a book that only talked about those subjects.
In American high schools, our online books are based by math branch. Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II, Calculus (which is divided into AB and BC, BC is even harder than AB), and Statistics.
These are definitely organized better, because each unit is about one topic. Like, one unit could be focused on quadratic equations and how to graph/solve them.
Edit: I just realized how wordy this response is. Hopefully it isn’t too long for ppl who read this!
