If you don't have kids this age, how would you know?
Both my 3rd and 4th grade kids going to the normal local public school in suburan Philadelphia, are now learning algebra. Basics, like the concept of variables and how to find out what value they actually might be. Simple stuff to start but it went on from here to more interesting concepts; initially stuff like if A = 1, B = 2, C = 3, D = 4 ....etc. How many ways can you make a "math sentence" that equals 5? ...so A + D and B + C, etc. I bet some of us adults can even do this