Originally Posted by Cranberry
It's obviously an individual situation, but neither had issues, and I view Math as a bit different than many of the other subjects. It's so factual/concrete that maturity levels, age differences, etc., aren't that meaningful.


While I don't expect the OP's child to have any problem with algebra, I think this may be going a bit far. There's an abstraction level in algebra 1 that I think you have to be developmentally ready for, just like you have to be developmentally ready to learn to read.