It's not all that great to be super advanced in math very early either.
I tested out of pre algebra in 7th grade because my dad basically taught me it over the summer. Took geometry in 8th grade. Took algebra 2 at community college over summer took pre calculus my freshman year, and took ap calculus my sophomore year but halfway through the year I found it too slow so I took calc bc online with Stanford.
But then I took multivariate calc my junior year at a local cc and got a B in a math class for the first time ever. I got burnt out. And I hadn't learned the study methods required to succeed in college level mathematics. So even though I had always loved math and went into college first semester taking upper div math, I found myself disliking it more and more and eventually switching to economics. I think, had I not rushed so much, I may have have actually enjoyed it more and fully majored in it.
No offense, but if you were really going to go for it as a math major I think a minor stumble like getting a 'B' would have just made you double down. Point set topology was the gut-check class for me.
On the article topic, this is pretty bad. Common Core 'intuitive' BS aside, kids need earlier exposure to algebraic concepts, it was the main reason they failed the elementary calculus and probability courses in college that I ended up teaching them. It was very draining to be wasting my time trying to explain to a senior at Georgia Tech how to solve 2x=1 and then by analogy 3x=1, though they could see no similarities between the two equations.
I tested out of pre algebra in 7th grade because my dad basically taught me it over the summer. Took geometry in 8th grade. Took algebra 2 at community college over summer took pre calculus my freshman year, and took ap calculus my sophomore year but halfway through the year I found it too slow so I took calc bc online with Stanford.
But then I took multivariate calc my junior year at a local cc and got a B in a math class for the first time ever. I got burnt out. And I hadn't learned the study methods required to succeed in college level mathematics. So even though I had always loved math and went into college first semester taking upper div math, I found myself disliking it more and more and eventually switching to economics. I think, had I not rushed so much, I may have have actually enjoyed it more and fully majored in it.