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> I wish they were taught in high school, because they would motivate kids to learn graphics and programming.

Learned Linear Algebra (matrix calculations and some analytical geometry) + Calculus in eleventh grade, around 1995. I think it was the standard curriculum in all Eastern Europe and the countries from the ex Soviet Union.

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I learned some degree of linear algebra sometime during high school (in optional math classes that a lot of my schoolmates never reached), but mostly as a set of rote-learned operations without a connection to anything useful. As a consequence, I ended up re-learning a lot of it in university, and then catching up on it again on my own while learning about 3D graphics. (American, in high school during early 00's)

The math courses from my first university year where 90% a redo of the math from my last two years of high school. The difference was that in university they emphasized the theory over exercises, basically forced us to learn 1 - 2 hours demonstrations of some theorem.