Bad at math?

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I can do multiplication tables to 10. ETA: Oh, but come to think of it, I recall being thrilled to score at the 50th percentile in the math section of the GRE.

I told my mother this week that my whole life might not have been a series of failures had I gotten the math gene the two Aspie brothers got.

My doctoral dissertation was based on social interaction theory, how's that for irony? That was where my brain hit its ceiling.

Some of us have Dyscalculia including me. I did well in business math but I only passed Algebra 1 because the teacher curved my grade. I have other learning disabilities too including Dyslexia & Dysgraphia so I really s#cked with most of my school classes.

I'm quite bad. I've got a D/an F in school for a reason. I don't get math. It doesn't make sense and it confuses me.

Cant do any of it, never could.

Ask me to do simple addition/subtraction, and sure, I'll do it, a bit slowly, though if it's too many digits I'll just fling a random object at you.

Ask me to do multiplication, and I'll sorta try to do it, but it'll be slow and if there's more than 2 digits involved, well, more flinging of things.

Ask me to do division and you'll get a blank stare.

Anything further and I'll just throw a chair at you.

Thus is the extent of my math skills. Needless to say, I just have the PC calculator for anything like that.

in high school I got failing grades in anything higher than general math [no algebra]. the problem was they expected me to learn it faster than I could, I was about 3 weeks behind the rest of the class.

I hate algebra and everything that uses it. For some reason my brain just tries to solve it in one big chunk. Never ends up good.

I know about "high pot" !

The square of the high pot in use... is equal to the square of the other two sides!

But that's about the limit of my my math aptitude.

interesting thing was that although I failed algebra, I did fairly well at symbolic logic. go figure.

I was never any good at maths and even at the special school I wasn't taught properly so when I was retrenched from work I did a numarcy course and I managed to catch up a little bit with adding up and taking away and even the times tables, I still can't do division though.

Here is my math theorum, for what it's worth (which might be nothing): The World is made up of two types of people: the algebra people and the geometry people. Algebra people are more verbal and linear than geometry people, who mostly see things in pictures.

I was horrible at math in high school because it was taught in a mostly verbal way and I didn't understand the explanations. Geometry was much easier because I could see the pictures of shapes. But at that time, I quit studying math because I believed that I was dumb at it. I graduated HS and went off to college, but didn't take any math courses.

Fast forward a couple of decades. I've always been fascinated with numbers. So I went back to college and got a 2nd bachelor's degree. This time, I majored in math. I took college algebra, which was difficult, then I took trigonometry, where I could draw pictures of triangles and then solve the problems. Then I went off in calculus, which depends upon graphs and pictures -- at least that's how I studied it. I would follow each step shown in the text book while doing my homework. If the professor said to do all of the odd problems, then I'd do the even problems as well. After doing a few problems, I began to see the patterns and understand what they were talking about. I studied 4 semesters of calculus, linear algebra, probability theory, advanced geometry, number theory, topology. It was fascinating and I ended up graduating as a math major with high honors. It was all geometric, pictures and graphs for me. I am most definitely a geometry person.

Later on, I studied computer programming. I didn't directly use my math degree, but studying math was quite helpful. I worked over 15 years at programming and recently retired.

I thought the world was divided between numerates and inumerates.

Haha, yep. I have As and Bs in all my classes and an F in Math. (Working on bringing it up though...)