I distinctly recall single-variable algebra in elementary school here in Poland. It may vary from country to country.
What age was that? I'm wondering if something was lost in translation (no two countries I hear about have exactly the same school system so the terms don't line up), or if Poland just did algebra sooner than the UK?
Edit: also, where might I find some old Polish example exams and marking schemes? ChatGPT is inherently multilingual, so I might as well.
Elementary school is (or used to be back when I was there) 1-6th grades, and in 6th grade children are 12 years old, I believe.
There used to be something called a 6th-grade exam (testing both polish and math) that everyone took before going to middle school, which is what I was looking at before. Though some of these questions may be in the training set, so I would advise to scramble the numbers.
Here's an example: https://arkusze.pl/sprawdzian-szostoklasisty-probny-operon-j...
Thanks! :)
This thread is no longer on my first page of comments, so I may forget to reply, but I've downloaded those and do intend to test it against those exams, and will put the write up here: https://github.com/BenWheatley/Studies-of-AI
Algebra and trig wasn't until secondary school for me ("year 7" we called it, school year beginning age 11), though I personally had a head start from having learned to read with the Commodore 64 user manual.
Well, if you're not willing (or we'll calibrated enough), I should get some old exam papers, see how well it grades against students. I wonder if there even are any downloadable pre-GCSE exams…