Anecdotal, but I grew up in the US and I learned this in middle school as a gifted student. Others have mentioned it depends on the state/curriculum. I imagine in other countries they also divide their students between standard/honors/gifted-type tiers; they certainly do in the Netherlands, which is where I did my graduate studies.

[–] chocosoldier@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 months ago

"Gifted" education in the US means they burn us out with weird "critical thinking" extracirriculars and then berate us when the senioritis hits two years early.

[–] TheOakTree@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

I learned algebra around the same stage of my education. But to be fair, my parents were spending money to keep me learning accelerated math.