I Can't Do Math

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Sometimes it's just difficulty in math. Other times, it could be something bigger.

http://www.ldinfo.com/dyscalculia.htm

Dyscalculia is a math-related learning disability. I'm not saying anyone in particular has it, but there could be other things going on that you might not know about. I don't think too many people know what it is.

Math and I have.... issues. Ever since I was a child math and I had trouble. Of course looking back on it, it wasn't math but the teachers around me failing me for not showing my work. I was able to do the math in my head much quicker than on paper, and doing it in my head made way more sense than on paper. However I got the questions wrong just because I didn't show my work. So because of that I have hated math, almost to the point of having near melt downs during math tests.

Now a days I can do almost any math easily, except for the useless math with the letters in it. My brain simply can't grasp those math problems. Seeing one of those kinds of problems will send me into a melt down. Three failed classes on the subject of letter math has taught me that, sometimes, they should let you skip such subjects. Thankfully I managed to get into a business math class that I was able to pass.

Mathmatics are the most important thing ever to be thought in school, learn it and you will kick ass in life.

In elementary school I was great at math! I found I could visualize the numbers in my head and kind of put them together like that. I even won math contests.

Then came middle school and algebra and it was like my brain completely shut down. I hated it and I couldn't understand what had happened to me. Everyone else seemed to be doing fine but, for me, it was literally like having to learn an alien language.

In college it was no better. No one had ever helped me with math so I struggled alone. With the bell curve I got Ds so I managed to pass. Thank God that is over.