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Ha,ha!! Love this!!

To properly show work, a lot of writing can be required, sometimes many lines per problem. It's not just the amount of writing, but the type of writing as well, in that it can be seen by students as unnecessary because the steps are obvious.

Another issue with starting the Algebra I, geometry, Algebra II sequence early is that geometry is also writing intensive (proofs) and some young students who are ready for algebra may not be ready for geometry.

My son was cognitively ready for algebra when he was 9, but I decided to wait a year because of the writing issue.

Possibly the thread Gifted children could learn math much earlier?

And two points for KathrynH

It's because the child is still stuck in its ethereal body (a constellation of formative forces) and not incarnated into its astral body ( a constellation of soul forces) yet, thus not capable of rational thinking. "Children of this age are mainly ruled by their emotions."

Oops, sorry, wrong thread, what? Isn't it amazing in what many ways educators, even public school teachers as far away as possible from Waldorf education, can be stuck in their misconceptions?

Mandibular development, anyone? Oh, right. That was literacy. I just have this vision of locusts crunching their way through a library, somehow...

Where is math development located in the corporeal body, anyway?

I vote that Kathryn wins the thread, by the way-- that is brilliant.