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Does Harry Potter only know fifth grade math?
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Hermione mentioned in the first book that wizards tend to absolutely suck at things that are typically Muggle, like logic, so it follows that they probably suck at math too.
Logically, that does follow, but we're talking about wizards here.
True, but their methods of learning do not differ significantly from that of muggles. They still need to take classes the same way we do, and this would need to learn maths and logic the same way too.
Whoosh?
That's probably why wizards don't run the bank 😂
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Reading is very common at Hogwarts and the wider wizarding world. Hogwarts has an extensive library, and most of their communications and news media are done over written mediums.
Contrast that to maths where the hardest thing most wizards would realistically have to do is basic money operations. Made even harder by their bonkers monetary system.
I think the OP meant that if they all stopped learning maths at 10, and there was no English class at Hogwarts, they probably stopped learning to read at 10 as well (well, the Muggles anyway, there's no mention of how the Wizards learn anything before 11 I don't think?).
There wouldn't be additional English literature classes, sure, but by age 11 it's mostly just practice and looking up words you don't know anyway.
I think that's a bit over simplified. Do you think they'd be able to understand Shakespeare? Or a spell book from the same time as Shakespeare? There's a reason we continue to teach English until a child leaves secondary/high school.
The bigger question is, do they need to understand Shakespeare?
Shakespeare is important in UK Muggle culture, not so much elsewhere, including the wizarding world which very much has their own cultural icons.
They probably aren't getting their spells from books that old either. The reason we don't transpose Shakespeare to modern language is the loss of artistic intent in the process. Something that wouldn't apply to purely factual books like a spell book.
Besides, they are expected to learn Latin; that's where their spells come from.
She successfully brewed a complicated polyjuice potion that took months to make by just reading and following the instructions in the book when she was 12. She reads just fine.
But all wizard books are scribbled in crayon