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White-Rose-Tree
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05 Aug 2011, 1:17 pm
Mayel wrote:
Maybe some of those who are bad at Maths have Dyscalculia.
I'm pretty bad at it, although if you give me a step by step instruction written on a piece of paper (not a verbal instruction), I do much better than usual and can even pass exams and tests excellently.
So those are the symptoms:
I don't know what automatisation difficulties are...other than that, I've got almost all of those. I even still use my fingers when counting.
I'm pretty bad at it, although if you give me a step by step instruction written on a piece of paper (not a verbal instruction), I do much better than usual and can even pass exams and tests excellently.
So those are the symptoms:
Quote:
Dyscalculia occurs in people across the whole IQ range, and those who suffer from it often, but not always, also have difficulties with telling time, measurement, spatial reasoning and have a poor sense of direction.
Children with Asperger and dyscalculia can experience problems with:
• Conceptualizing time and judging the passing of time,
• Telling the difference between left and right.
• mentally estimating the measurement of an object or distance
• Inability to grasp and remember mathematical concepts, rules, and sequences
• Telling which of two numbers is the larger
• Relying on 'counting-on' strategies
• Everyday tasks like checking change
• Reading analog clocks
• Keeping score during games
The problem of dyscalculia does not reflect any emotional issues but causes difficulties in mentally connecting with thought processes. Children with dyscalculia and Asperger often need extensive mental strain to solve simple arithmetic tasks. One of their strategies is using their fingers when counting as a visual aid. They can keep on doing this even when they are into the upper grades. They experience severe difficulties in categorizing and have automatisation difficulties.
Children with Asperger and dyscalculia can experience problems with:
• Conceptualizing time and judging the passing of time,
• Telling the difference between left and right.
• mentally estimating the measurement of an object or distance
• Inability to grasp and remember mathematical concepts, rules, and sequences
• Telling which of two numbers is the larger
• Relying on 'counting-on' strategies
• Everyday tasks like checking change
• Reading analog clocks
• Keeping score during games
The problem of dyscalculia does not reflect any emotional issues but causes difficulties in mentally connecting with thought processes. Children with dyscalculia and Asperger often need extensive mental strain to solve simple arithmetic tasks. One of their strategies is using their fingers when counting as a visual aid. They can keep on doing this even when they are into the upper grades. They experience severe difficulties in categorizing and have automatisation difficulties.
I don't know what automatisation difficulties are...other than that, I've got almost all of those. I even still use my fingers when counting.
So that's what I have! Awesome!
I got my PSAT scores back with a perfect score in Writing, a perfect score in Reading, and a note on Maths saying that I needed to practice basic counting. Do I remember my grades? Nope, they were numbers! I also get lost in my own house occasionally, have never been able to estimate measurements, and time for me is totally "a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff"
I passed my maths classes with decent grades because the first few were online, and I did the lessons and tests with the book open in front of me, reading the written (verbal) directions, and because my college maths class was Maths for the Liberal Arts, in which we did logic problems and wrote a paper on the the Irish Potato Famine. No, really. I got an A in a maths class and freaked my parents out so much.
White-Rose-Tree
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Age: 36
Gender: Female
Posts: 69
Location: Virginia
05 Aug 2011, 1:20 pm
05 Aug 2011, 2:17 pm
White-Rose-Tree wrote:
Mayel wrote:
Maybe some of those who are bad at Maths have Dyscalculia.
I'm pretty bad at it, although if you give me a step by step instruction written on a piece of paper (not a verbal instruction), I do much better than usual and can even pass exams and tests excellently.
So those are the symptoms:
I don't know what automatisation difficulties are...other than that, I've got almost all of those. I even still use my fingers when counting.
I'm pretty bad at it, although if you give me a step by step instruction written on a piece of paper (not a verbal instruction), I do much better than usual and can even pass exams and tests excellently.
So those are the symptoms:
Quote:
Dyscalculia occurs in people across the whole IQ range, and those who suffer from it often, but not always, also have difficulties with telling time, measurement, spatial reasoning and have a poor sense of direction.
Children with Asperger and dyscalculia can experience problems with:
• Conceptualizing time and judging the passing of time,
• Telling the difference between left and right.
• mentally estimating the measurement of an object or distance
• Inability to grasp and remember mathematical concepts, rules, and sequences
• Telling which of two numbers is the larger
• Relying on 'counting-on' strategies
• Everyday tasks like checking change
• Reading analog clocks
• Keeping score during games
The problem of dyscalculia does not reflect any emotional issues but causes difficulties in mentally connecting with thought processes. Children with dyscalculia and Asperger often need extensive mental strain to solve simple arithmetic tasks. One of their strategies is using their fingers when counting as a visual aid. They can keep on doing this even when they are into the upper grades. They experience severe difficulties in categorizing and have automatisation difficulties.
Children with Asperger and dyscalculia can experience problems with:
• Conceptualizing time and judging the passing of time,
• Telling the difference between left and right.
• mentally estimating the measurement of an object or distance
• Inability to grasp and remember mathematical concepts, rules, and sequences
• Telling which of two numbers is the larger
• Relying on 'counting-on' strategies
• Everyday tasks like checking change
• Reading analog clocks
• Keeping score during games
The problem of dyscalculia does not reflect any emotional issues but causes difficulties in mentally connecting with thought processes. Children with dyscalculia and Asperger often need extensive mental strain to solve simple arithmetic tasks. One of their strategies is using their fingers when counting as a visual aid. They can keep on doing this even when they are into the upper grades. They experience severe difficulties in categorizing and have automatisation difficulties.
I don't know what automatisation difficulties are...other than that, I've got almost all of those. I even still use my fingers when counting.
So that's what I have! Awesome!
I got my PSAT scores back with a perfect score in Writing, a perfect score in Reading, and a note on Maths saying that I needed to practice basic counting. Do I remember my grades? Nope, they were numbers! I also get lost in my own house occasionally, have never been able to estimate measurements, and time for me is totally "a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff"
I passed my maths classes with decent grades because the first few were online, and I did the lessons and tests with the book open in front of me, reading the written (verbal) directions, and because my college maths class was Maths for the Liberal Arts, in which we did logic problems and wrote a paper on the the Irish Potato Famine. No, really. I got an A in a maths class and freaked my parents out so much.
I can identify with that: I almost got a perfect score on the reading and writing parts of the SAT as well. My math score was so bad that it's not even worth mentioning.
I wish I could write papers for my math classes! I would rather write ten papers than have to pass 4 math exams...
05 Aug 2011, 2:18 pm
White-Rose-Tree wrote:
Though I prefer analog clocks - anybody else? Because it allows you to count time, like counting on your fingers. A digital clock, if you want to tell how far apart times are, makes you do the problem in your head. On an analog clock, all the numbers are arranged there already, you just count around the circle. Does that make sense?
I never thought about it like that before!
05 Aug 2011, 3:41 pm
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White-Rose-Tree
Yellow-bellied Woodpecker
Joined: 3 Aug 2011
Age: 36
Gender: Female
Posts: 69
Location: Virginia
05 Aug 2011, 10:01 pm
Mayel wrote:
White-Rose-Tree wrote:
Though I prefer analog clocks - anybody else? Because it allows you to count time, like counting on your fingers. A digital clock, if you want to tell how far apart times are, makes you do the problem in your head. On an analog clock, all the numbers are arranged there already, you just count around the circle. Does that make sense?
I don't like analog clocks because you have to count time. Imagine you don't have any means with you to tell time so you'll ask someone and they'll just show you their analog wrist-watch for 5 seconds because that's the average amount of time people need to read an analog clock but you need longer so you have to ask again or stare longer...and I don't like those kind of situations.
But I see what you're getting at. You can see short or long amounts of time instantly, you can't do that with a digital clock. I guess they have both their advantages and disadvantages.
I've trained myself to put my watch on the way I put my glasses on. When I get up in the morning and leave my bedroom. That way you always have a time-keeping device with you, the awkward situation only arises if your watch stops. And then (depending on how bad with numbers you are...) you won't be able to read a digital watch flashed in five seconds either so you've got a problem either way!
I've also trained my friends/family to know better than to ask me what time it is, it takes me five seconds of staring at most watches to tell them
06 Aug 2011, 1:43 am
White-Rose-Tree wrote:
I've trained myself to put my watch on the way I put my glasses on. When I get up in the morning and leave my bedroom. That way you always have a time-keeping device with you, the awkward situation only arises if your watch stops. And then (depending on how bad with numbers you are...) you won't be able to read a digital watch flashed in five seconds either so you've got a problem either way!
I've also trained my friends/family to know better than to ask me what time it is, it takes me five seconds of staring at most watches to tell them
I've also trained my friends/family to know better than to ask me what time it is, it takes me five seconds of staring at most watches to tell them
I don't have any problem reading digital watches.
It's not so much about reading numbers than estimating and having a natural feel for quantities. That's my problem.
I normally always take something with me to read time but you never know.
But I guess everybody with such problems has their very own way to deal with it.
06 Aug 2011, 9:20 pm
Dessie wrote:
I can identify with that: I almost got a perfect score on the reading and writing parts of the SAT as well. My math score was so bad that it's not even worth mentioning.
In the OP you claim to have scored 620 and 600, respectively, on the reading and writing portions of the SAT. For the record, neither of those scores are particularly close to perfect (a perfect score is 800). Moderately above average, sure, but not really that high.
11 Aug 2011, 4:22 pm
Descartes wrote:
Math has always been my weakest subject. Sometimes I might be okay at it, but most of the time I struggle just to make a passing grade. I can do basic math and basic algebra, but anything beyond that just overwhelms and fries my brain. 
I am not that bad at maths I am just a slow as a snail. I am worse in subtraction and division than I am in multiplication and additon.
I didnt understand subtraction at first took some time till I grasped it. generally I am terrible at mental stuff I am much better when I can see the numbers written down. The stuff that fries my brain comes later such as calculus I suck badly at calculus and analysis.
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