trouble with math

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I survived my required statistics class with a three-pronged strategy:

1) take it in the summer, as the only class, at a difference college. The logic was that I can transfer in the credit without the grade affecting my GPA
2) Get a Dyscalculia diagnosis, and ask for an accommodation. For me, it was a human reader and scribe. I can tell you the answer is "fifty-four point thirty-two" and then write completely different numbers. I also enter them wrong into the calculator. Exams took me several hours, with the human correcting every digit as I tried to sum the columns.
3) Hired a statistics doctoral student to tutor me once per week, in preparation of the weekly exams. I also went to the math lab EVERY day after class, and didn't leave until I understood the lesson of that day.

If you don't dedicate yourself to learning the simple functions, you will collapse in the next lesson. In summary, I got a B, which knocked my socks off.

Am I the only one here who loved math when I was your age?
The best thing about math was that it was never boring. Take it easy peeps, you would love it.

I have trouble with math as well. I started having trouble around third grade and it continued until my junior year in high school, after which I stopped taking any more math classes.

I am not good with math either. I was getting the hang of fractions and we were just starting to do square roots in 6th grade and then we moved during the summer and everyone was already ding algebra and pie stuff and I found it all hard. I could never do the problems on my own or figure out how to get the answers and story problems were hard because I didn't know if they were subtraction or division or something and then in 8th grade they made it easier for me by giving me easier math. I think I missed a big step because of the move. I think my school was slower than others because we were given fractions in 5th grade, division in 4th grade and I was shocked to find out that second graders did fractions and I never had that in second grade, no one did.

I think I started to have trouble with Math in 4th grade when division got too long for me but other kids were having troubles too and my mom held a meeting and the teacher realized she was giving us 5th grade math and some kids were ready for it and the rest were not so she gave us 4th grade math problems again instead of 5th grade. Then in 5th grade I had the hang of it and I still struggled because of too long of problems and too much concentration I had to do to focus and story problems were hard. Then there were fractions.