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I'm interested in how you mastered algebra at 4. Were you already strong at arithmetic when you got the algebra book (and algebra was just a continuation of yo
by kenjackson 14y ago
I'm interested in how you mastered algebra at 4. Were you already strong at arithmetic when you got the algebra book (and algebra was just a continuation of your already acceleratd progress) or was algebra just very intuitive and the start of a great math career?
- yaks_hairbrush 14y agoCan't speak for OP, but I started learning algebra at 5. It happened that I really liked playing with calculators at age 2-3, and that helped give me an extremely solid mental arithmetic foundation. Essentially, the special thing about me probably wasn't some super-human neural circuitry for understanding math. It was the fact that I was wired, somehow, to enjoy playing with a calculator. I had more arithmetic practice by age 4 than most kids have by age 11.
- prezjordan 14y agoI feel like I can relate to this (a little). I'm no prodigy, but even as a young kid (6 or 7) I would write down algebra problems all day and solve them. I did a ton of mental math, too, writing down several dozen 2-digit numbers and adding them all in my head. Haven't really thought about that in a long time. Playing with a calculator also got me into programming (TI-Basic on the TI-83 in middle school).