Yep, it was 7th grade for us. Middle school was pretty intense at my school...not just for math, it was also when we learned how to diagram sentences, write in cursive, and build our own experiments using the scientific method. This is all pretty basic stuff in hindsight, but it wasn't very fun in the moment.
Do you remember children’s programming in the ’70s and ’80s?
The discussion of grade school math right before this question led my brain to this instead of TV:


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