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USA, NY (the state matters), if given at the END of the year most 7/8 year olds could answer those, so second grade. Oh wow I just saw this is meant for what we call junior high, by then I was doing trigonometry and that was in the 90's.
 
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Asscherhalo_lover said:
USA, NY (the state matters), if given at the END of the year most 7/8 year olds could answer those, so second grade.
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Thanks!!!

I suspected something is fishy with our school system and you've just confirmed it!

ETA: I was browsing around and stumbled on some NY State tests and these require a much higher standard of learning than in Australia.

Seriously what the heck is going on with our school system. It's rubbish!
 
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Short answer because I have a class starting in two minutes. I teach 7th grade and I notice this gets progressively more difficult. I think my 12 year old students would have a hard time answering these as we get to about page 2/3. Proportional relationships is a 7th grade topic here. I will look more later and opine again...

ETA "Here" is NYC suburbs.
 
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Slick1 said:
Short answer because I have a class starting in two minutes. I teach 7th grade and I notice this gets progressively more difficult. I think my 12 year old students would have a hard time answer these as we get to about page 2/3. Proportional relationships is a 7th grade topic here. I will look more later and opine again...
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Thank you Slick1!!! Much appreciated! I know it's a really weird request to make on a jewellery forum!
 
Lol you should see the Singapore questions. I have friends who start to feel the heat at the primary school questions (and then decide to hire tuition teachers for their kids). Exam questions regularly generate concern that they are too difficult for kids.

Not a teacher but these are definitely primary school level in my part of the world.
 
mellowyellowgirl said:
Thank you Slick1!!! Much appreciated! I know it's a really weird request to make on a jewellery forum!
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That's year 7 NAPLAN in Australia, but weirdly I'm friends with people who are teachers in the US and some of the work my son does is way way easier than children in the US his age and some of it is harder than some of the older kids in the US do, it depends on the topics and there are classes of super smart kids in the US and classes of much older not very smart kids, just like there are here. So I'm not sure overall you can actually make an apples to apples comparison. I used to be an English/History teacher in NSW, I've also taught Maths, Geography, Music and Special Education.
 
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Short answer because I have a class starting in two minutes. I teach 7th grade and I notice this gets progressively more difficult. I think my 12 year old students would have a hard time answering these as we get to about page 2/3. Proportional relationships is a 7th grade topic here. I will look more later and opine again...

ETA "Here" is NYC suburbs.
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That's so surprising! I remember doing things like this in elementary school in the 90's! I went to school in Long Island.
 
Asscherhalo_lover said:
That's so surprising! I remember doing things like this in elementary school in the 90's! I went to school in Long Island.
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Well, I do teach SpEd but I also push into regular classes and still think many of them would struggle with these some of these questions. Especially before the topics are taught this year... :) We teach most of these topics in grade 7. Probability is actually an 8th grade topic here.
 
Slick1 said:
Well, I do teach SpEd but I also push into regular classes and still think many of them would struggle with these some of these questions. Especially before the topics are taught this year... :) We teach most of these topics in grade 7. Probability is actually an 8th grade topic here.
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That really shows how much it's still school to school and probably class to class. I'll try and pull up what our standardized testing looks like for 7th grade.
 
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