wrongcitizen wrote:
Pretty simple, question in title. I've always had immense difficulty learning something easy, while I love learning more difficult things. I'm currently sitting in the special education math class, with the average person 4-5 grades younger than me, (because the school wants to humiliate me into doing my damn work), but I fail it every year. My friend sneaks honors calculus to me so I can do it for fun on my spare time, because that I TRULY find easy. I go insane when I have to sit there and hold a ruler to a triangle. In both advanced math classes and basic ones I don't do my HW, I never have and I never will, and I can't. I literally can't, it drives me insane. So what do I do here? I feel trapped in a loop of idiocy.
You may have a learning disability. Perhaps you struggle with actual numbers but understand math concepts just fine? If this is the case, you should be tested for a learning disability so you can use a calculator and advance in mathematics. Sometimes schools, in thinking that arithmetic is a foundation of mathematics, unintentionally hinder people with certain learning disabilities who will never be completely fluent in arithmetic but who could do very advance mathematics if they had a calculator to help them with arithmetic.
Don't let them hold you back.
02 Apr 2017, 5:12 am
