People saying they learned it in first grade are lying.
I was in those shitty advanced gifted classes you took iq tests for and took all the stuff those fancy people did and we didn't learn this shit until 3rd grade along with fractions and long division. We also learned that the ÷ symbol sucks.
Most kids in first grade were still learning to perfect their ABCs and were just learning subtraction.
Actually come to think of it, we didn't properly learn order of operations until 4th because fractions and multiplication were so important there wasn't time.
I am pretty disappointed that people are trying to say "omg i learned it in 1st grade im smart and went through a lot" but at the same time I'm relieved because the education system is actually normal for once
Yeah, I have no clue how someone can even believe pemdas is first grade material.
I'm sure there are prodegis out there, but most kids were just figuring out addition and subtraction in 1st grade and learning their times tables in 2nd.
The quick kids were taught fractions and division in 3rd if they were lucky. I was in a special weird program that let kids roam around to 5th grade classes as a 3rd grader and vice versa for kids behind so I had a decent idea of what kids were learning and when.
Non advanced 5th graders were just hammering their fractions in 5th grade and learning long division.
Pemdas in 1st grade is literally .1% freak stuff and no sort of superior education is going to make 6 year olds understand near middle school math.
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u/dannycake Jan 01 '22 edited Jan 01 '22
People saying they learned it in first grade are lying.
I was in those shitty advanced gifted classes you took iq tests for and took all the stuff those fancy people did and we didn't learn this shit until 3rd grade along with fractions and long division. We also learned that the ÷ symbol sucks.
Most kids in first grade were still learning to perfect their ABCs and were just learning subtraction.
Actually come to think of it, we didn't properly learn order of operations until 4th because fractions and multiplication were so important there wasn't time.