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Alan Scott

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I'm sort of curious about this. Back when I was planning to become a math teacher, there was a case study in one of my classes about an experimental program in which kids didn't start math education until 6th grade, IIRC...

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They basically did fine, because they had enough general reasoning skills at that age to learn in weeks what would have taken months or years for younger kids, so were able to quickly catch up.

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