[gcraig]

Agreed. I have been teaching my 6 yr old to recognized sequences and patterns, algebra substitutions, etc. Things like this:

x=(2+1)
y=(1+3)
What is x+y? y-x?

I keep wanting to jump into quadratic equations but he's just a first grader so have to keep things kinda simple for a bit longer...

[Mind-numbed Robot]

I keep wanting to jump into quadratic equations but he's just a first grader so have to keep things kinda simple for a bit longer...

Well, in the meantime perhaps he can practice writing algorithms in C++. :-)