<p>I remember my school starting to be tracked around third grade or so. I think pre-algebra was sixth grade (they skipped us ahead a year of the “normal” math then), algebra seventh, algebra 2/trig eighth, geometry/other trig ninth, pre-calc tenth, etc. If you weren’t in the accelerated math you’d take pre-algebra in seventh grade.</p>
<p>I always thought giving a whole year to pre-calc seemed like a bit of a waste, but then again I’m also one of the only people I know that still has that unit circle memorized.</p>
<p>(I should also mention that as of 10th grade we switched to block scheduling, so we had four classes at a time, each class only lasting half a year. A real bummer if you had a spring AP class and a month of the class was after the exam.)</p>