4.-7. klasse

19:08 Aug 30, 2012 

Gitte is indeed correct "in theory". In practice, I think the "skolemælk" link I gave indicates that 96% of the children are within the bands indicated. And a game manufacturer giving a target group of "4.-7. klasse" is most likely looking at the recommended ages rather than the theoretically possible fringes.

18:36 Aug 30, 2012 

Thanks, Gitte. As one whose own birthday falls fairly late in the year, I was both held back a year by the birthday deadline and then jumped ahead a year later, so your scenario of a wide age range in a class is a familiar one to me. ;-)

18:28 Aug 30, 2012 

Danish children start school according to the calendar year, not according to a certain age. I.e. the children in any one 'school year' will be born the same year, i.e. children starting in 1. klasse in August 2012 will be born in 2005, which means that there may be almost a year's difference between the youngest and the oldest child in a class. In theory. In practice, parents are able to communicate with the school and agree if it is better for a child to wait a year before they start school.

So, you may actually end up with children in 4.-7. klasse being anything from 9 to 15 years old.

This is, of course, just to throw a spanner in the works of all the other careful calculations. :D

12:28 Aug 30, 2012 

Yes, that's where I'm headed with this. I just needed to know if I'm making too great an assumption at the extremes. There are other intervals listed elsewhere in the material for which I'll need to make some judgments before proposing choices for the client.

12:22 Aug 30, 2012 

We would ALWAYS have "Ages 9-13" (or whatever) on a game, never the school years