math

[danaeris]

what grade did you learn algebra in?

geometry? pre-calc? Calculus? What kind of school were you at, and where?

Comments

[geekosaur]

9th grade, Independence High School, Independence, Ohio.

[unseelie23.livejournal.com]

Algebra, 9th Grade, Central Senior High School, York, PA. Geometry was 10th, as was an elective Surveying Math (effectively applied trig). Calc was 11th I think.

[karenbynight.livejournal.com]

My math track was 8th grade algebra, 9th grade geometry, 10th grade advanced algebra, 11th grade geometry/pre-calc, and 12th grade calculus.

I was in public school in the central valley of California, and it was the "advanced" track -- you couldn't take any of it any younger, and no math higher than basic calculus -- differentiation and basic integration -- was offered.

Interestingly enough, I took algebra twice; once in 8th grade and, despite passing, again in summer school right after. The first algebra teacher sucked, I knew I hadn't learned enough, and I was determined enough to get to Calculus 3.5 years later that I took summer school. In an un-air-conditioned classroom in the central valley. (who, me, stubborn? :-)

[karenbynight.livejournal.com]

whoops, that should be 11th grade trigonometry/pre-calc

[angelbob.livejournal.com]

I took the same classes (algebra, geom., etc) with the same names in the same years of school. It was at Huntsville High School in Huntsville, TX.

However, I dropped out before 12th grade, so no calculus. There was no calc offered at the high school itself, but if you had a car you could drive to Sam Houston, the local college, to take it there.

[visage.livejournal.com]

Pretty much the same classes in the same sequence ("Trig and Analytic Geometry" instead of "Trig / Precalc", but whatever). Centerville High School (public) in Centerville, OH.

[plymouth.livejournal.com]

7th and 8th grade - pre-algebra
9th grade - algebra
10th grade - geometry
11th grade - precalculus
12th grade - calculus
I was in a small upscale suburb of Boston. All the REALLY rich kids got sent off to private school, but the ones who were left were still pretty well off.

[plymouth.livejournal.com]

actually, now that I think about I think 7th was pre-alg, 8th was alg 1 and 9th was alg 2. but, whatever, it was all algebra stuffs.

oh, and it was a public high school, if that wasn't clear.

[nathanjw]

algebra: 6th/7th grade (public junior high)
geometry: 8th (public high school)
more algebra and trig: 9th (magnet high school)
skipped pre-calc, it looked like a waste of time
calculus (AP BC): 10th (magnet high school)

All in Northern Virginia.

Palmer Alaska. Home of the Giant Cabbage.

[kijeren.livejournal.com]

When I switched from private to public school in 8th grade, I tested into Algebra a year early. I was so miserable at it (C- average for an otherwise 3.8 student) that I re-took it 9th grade.

Geometry & Trig were 10th grade, but I dropped out halfway through the year. Never got to calculus.

[basmati.livejournal.com]

8th grade: algebra
9th grade: geometry
10th grade: algebra II/trig
11th grade: pre-calc
12th grade: calc

9th thru 11th was at a public high school in NJ (Honors College Prep track, they called it)
12th was a public high school in Houston. If we'd stayed in NJ, I would have taken AP calculus in 12th grade.

[auror.livejournal.com]

7th - algebra (independant study)
8th - geometry (2 kids in the class)
9th - algebra II
10th - precalc
11th - calculus BC
12th - multivariable (2 kids in class, same 2 as 8th grad)

hmm...

[etherial.livejournal.com]

I don't remember precisely what 7th grade was called, but it was about manipulating equations.

Algebra 8R
Geometry
more Algebra
Advanced Math (trig/precalculus)
Calculus BC

Graduated from Wellesley High School, Wellesley MA, 1999 AD

then a BS in Math.

[random-vamp.livejournal.com]

8th - Algebra (VA public school)
9th - Geometry/Algebra 2 (VA public school)
10th - Trig (VA public school)
11th - Calc (VA governers school)
12th - Diff Eq (VA governers school)

I was wierd though, as me and a friend went past the standard tracks, and they offered Diff Eq for us and two other kids that year as a test.

[rmjwell.livejournal.com]

7th - Pre-Algebra
8th - Algebra
9th - Geometry
10th- College Algebra
11th- Trig/Analytical Geometry
12th- Calculus

Merrillville, IN public school system, 1974-80.

[polkamadness.livejournal.com]

7: I can't remember
8: algebra
9: geometry
10: trig, precalculus (two separate courses)
11: calculus
12: linear algebra, calculus III, theory of numbers

all but the last year at Saratoga Springs high school; the last year I was taking courses at the local college, Skidmore.

Needless to say, this was compressed from the normal schedule.

- Mark

[metallic-wings.livejournal.com]

7th/8th - Algebra (Murphysboro, IL - skipped ahead of the rest of the class and worked alone with the go-ahead from the teacher)
9th - Geometry (Chicago suburbs)
10th - Trig/PreCalc (Chicago suburbs)

and I stopped there, because my requirements were done - and because I had never really enjoyed math, I was just good at it. Marginally regretting it now...

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

8th: algebra I
9th: honors geometry
10th: algebra II/trig
"Math Analysis," which was basically pre-calc, was supposed to come next, but I skipped straight to AP calculus instead. Took the AB exam; only a couple folks took the BC.

Went to a wealthy public school in Redlands, CA. Took pretty much the standard "honors" track except for skipping pre-calc. The non-honors track was 9th-algebra I, 10th-geometry, 11th-algebra II.

You asked for it! ;)

[emmett-the-sane.livejournal.com]

6th (private): pre-algebra (covered most of a regular algebra course.
7th (public): non-algebra mathematics, most advanced course offered
8th (private): algebra (was considered an advanced course)
9th (public): beginning algebra (I got a really dopehead counselor, who stuck me in this and bonehead English). The most advanced course available to 9th graders was algebra.
10th (public): geometry
11th (public): algebra II. first semester was in last period, in which I got a B+. Then that class was cancelled and I got moved to first period. My new intructor was an elderly bachelor pig farmer (seriously!) who believed that 45 degrees was about perfect to do math in. I got an F that semester.

[cyan-blue.livejournal.com]

Algebra 7th grade, a bit in 6th

I forget what 8th and 9th covered - maybe a bit more algebra, plus some set theory, theorems, etc.

Trig 10th grade
Pre-calc 11th grade
Calc 12th grade

I was at "geek schools."

[lobotomymonkey.livejournal.com]

At Chelmsford High, in good ol' Chelmsford, MA (home of Intercon), I took Algebra in 7th grade and this was considered the "Advanced track".
We went on to 8th grade: Geometry, 9th grade: Calculus, somewhere along the way a Calc AP class, but I can't remember completely...

Math-ness...

[ex-kerravon856.livejournal.com]

Algebra, 7th grade.
Basic Geometry, 8th grade.
Plane Geometry, Analytic Geometry, Trig, Calc and DiffyQ's in Junior College.
(all in the South SF Bay Area, CA)

[qedrakmar.livejournal.com]

officially: 8th grade, 10th grade (assuming you mean analytic geometric proofs, etc), 11th grade, 12th grade, and all in crappy public schools in Pawtucket, RI. (and if you want to know just how bad the school was, you can look here, and keep in mind it's improved greatly)

actually: I learned algebra around 4th grade, from my dad, pre-calc and calc pretty much entirely in a weekend during 9th grade, from my brother in law (who was a calc professor), and geometry, still, during 10th grade.

[huxleysghost.livejournal.com]

Algegra - 8th grade, tested out by the end of first semester. Public school, suburb of St. Louis.

Geometry - 8th grade through summer school to finish. Same location.

Calculus - 10th grade, same location. Took Statistics in 9th.

I went to a private school until I was expelled in the fifth grade, if it helps.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

I took algebra in 7th grade. Then when I was in 8th grade, there was no class higher than algebra, so I took it again. In 9th grade, freshmen weren't allowed to take any math class higher than algebra, so I took it again. In 10th grade, I took geometry, in 11th grade, I took algebra II, and I haven't had a math class since then -- 1980. (Until this year, I haven't had a college course/program that's required math, including my major at UCB, and it would have been an extravagant elective. But this coming year, I'll need it.)

[aaangyl.livejournal.com]

pre-algebra in 6th, algebra in 7th, geometry in 8th (at the high school in the mornings), 9th was algII, 10th was trig/analyt, 11th AP calc AB, 12th AP calc BC. I transfered to public school from a private school where I'd been on an advanced math track anyway, so I was essentially a year ahead of the honors students and 2 years ahead of the bulk of the class in learning math

[earthdog.livejournal.com]

9th - algebra
10th - geometry
11th - trig

[whipsnkisses.livejournal.com]

I went to public schools K-12. Learned Geometry during sophmore year in high school. Learned "Algebra 2" (pre-calc), junior year in high school. Having agonizingly completed that class I decided that math sucked and I never wanted to touch it again. And I haven't. Even through a liberal arts education in college! Thank the gawds for small miracles.

But I won't hold it against you that you get off on the stuff. ;P

[urbanbard.livejournal.com]

I'm not the only liberal arts geek around these parts?
woo-hoo!

[whipsnkisses.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah.. are you kidding? In a town like San Francisco? In fact, almost everyone who was in my program (hippie-run-create-your-own-major-no-grades) has either relocated to another country, Seattle, or San Francisco.

I think we passed each other at Wicked City. You're the Minister In Training with the Prosthetic Leg 'O Doom, right? I'm Kitty, don't know if you remember.

Anyway, I got to create my own major and so I have a B.A. creatively named "In Search of Her Spirit: Culture, Religion, & Women".

[urbanbard.livejournal.com]

I'm sure others are out there, I just rarely meet em. I got myself into a great circle of friends, but its almost all science/math/computer geeks. I can keep up with the star trek end of the conversation, and I read some fun stuff about physics and theology, but after that I get lost.

And yes, we 'met' at Wicked City, I'm the Pagan-Christian working on two master's degrees and training to be a minister in the Unitarian Church.
Prosthetic Leg 'O Doom- thats awesome.
And I do remember you.

That sounds like a very cool school, and major. What school were you at?
The major sounds very interesting, did you do a thesis as part of it?

[divineseduction.livejournal.com]

Seventh or eighth grade (middle school) was pre-algebra (Lake Tahoe, CA).
Freshman year was algebra one,
Sophmore year was algebra two,
Junior was trig, I think...
Senior year was something that might have been pre-calc or calculus, but there were only two of us in the class, in the same classroom and teacher as regular geometry, and the teacher Didn't Give A Fuck. I vaguely remember something about tutoring the rest of the class, but it's very fuzzy. For that matter, it's _all_ very fuzzy. I just tried to find my old report cards, and all I could confirm is that I had geometry in 9th grade.
All public schools. High school was in Zephyr Cove, NV, in a small, fairly affluent community (my graduating class was, uhm, 50 something? I think?).
Most of my elementary school years were spent moving around. A lot. Middle school, I attended all three years in Tahoe (CA side), and then all four years at Whittell in Zephyr Cove. Middle school was large and impersonal. And boring. So I got into trouble.
High school was... a challenge. It was much more intensive and, well, difficult that CA schools. All my education-career, I didn't have to do a damn thing to get great grades. Then I go to this new high school, proceed to gain 40 lbs, and have Issues with the classes. And the ppl there.
And I'm rambling.
Right.

[urbanbard.livejournal.com]

9th grade algebra.
10th, geometry.
11th baby pre-calc.
12th, AB Calculus.
I went to a private H.S. where I was in the uber advanced english and history track and the most basic track for math. I could have opted out after 11th grade, but adored physics, and so I made myself take Calc, even though I wasn't ready for it. Passing, and getting enough knowledge to understand AP physics required hard core tutoring from a very generous teacher, but it was worth it, I loved the physics course.

calibrating the math timeline

[http://users.livejournal.com/_duncan/]

algegra: 9th (by name. many of the same concepts earlier.)
geometry: 10th (heavy emphasis on proofs)
algII & trig: summer session at DVC
calc AB: 11th
calc BC: 12th

never took precalculus.

public high school. lafayette, california.

[octal.livejournal.com]

Algebra: 5th grade pullout "gifted and talented" program in public school

pre-calc: 9th grade, online course to satisfy pre-req for a college class

calc: 9th/10th grade summer. MIT Mesh or something. (equiv to AP Calc BC)

[lawbard.livejournal.com]

I was in high school in Wayland, MA.
We had several different math tracks. I think Algebra for everyone was 9th, and I took Geometry in 10th.

However I only had to do 2 years of math, and since I wasn't in the honors classes and had dull professors who couldn't motivate me and stuck me with busywork-homework that my whole grade depended on...and I was rebelling against homework...I just didn't take any more than the minimum. I suck.

Pre-calc and Calc could be taken 11th and 12th. Or you could do honors for everything offered I think. Course I didn't do it, so its hard to say. Would've made honors physics easier...

[kaidevis.livejournal.com]

I learned algebra in 7th grade, but it wasn't officially taught at my school (a kinda yuppie-ish junior high, predominantly white upper-middle class in Santa Rosa, CA) until 8th grade. Algebra II was 9th or 10th grade (depending on student's past classes), and many of my friends did trig and pre-calc in 11th and 12th; a fair amount who'd kept on top of things did calc in 12th.

[baniszew.livejournal.com]

My school district (in howard county, maryland) had 3 tracks. I was in the fastest (though the placement tests didn't get me into it, my parents had to convince the teachers to take me, and then I was the head of the class).

7th - algebra
8th - geometry
9th - algebra II
10th - precalc and trig
11th - calc AB
12th - calc BC

There were also a couple kids at each of the ten county schools who did independant study and went through diff eq and linear algebra. There was one teacher who floated around between schools and visited them all.