YOU’RE DOING QUADRATICS IN MIDDLE SCHOOL?’

Yes, that’s standard at least in Germany

That’s nuts. In the US the only high school math I was taught was Algebra and geometry. Anything more advanced than that was for students in the “gifted” program. This was 20 years ago, though.

Maybe you were just at a bad school? Quadratic equations are mandatory in Germany even for the lowest level of graduation.

Until my Abitur (12th grade) I learned about equations, stochastics, integrals and derivatives, vector stuff, etc.