Are you mathematically able?

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Yeah right, I don't even know the basics like division, multiplication, my times tables. I think this is rather pathetic. But this is unfortunately because the teachers wanted the students to practice it at home until they fully got the hang of it, but I never did, and the fact that they let us use a calculator for EVERYTHING in middle school and high school didn't help either.

I'm very good with numbers and mental maths and did very well in secondary school maths, but not as well in university where maths gets a lot more abstract. In fact one of my obsessions when I was a young child was thinking about numbers.

<--- Can barely comprehend the quadratic formula.

I can't math for the life of me.

Hell No!

I'm crap at math and always have been. I'm in 12th Grade and i'm failing my Geometry class because it is so dang hard!


I'm definitely below average in Math. I ain't gonna lie.

I am as mathematically disabled as possible.

Not very good at all in math. I'm not even good with a calculator.

I'm very good with my math. In fact, math is my best subject.

I made both my math tutors sad and confused, but don't test positive for dyscalculia or anything similar.

i can do basic math but not much above that

Yep
always first in class in math since forever
grade 12 atm

I sympathise with that, my maths goes a little under basic mathematics, but im sure given the correct ratio of national average weather for this time of the year that 80f may not seem that high but has a degree of 30c, I don't know, help please clarify.
Oh and I still sympathise with the above persons honesty .

Today, I could not solve a differential equation if my life depended on it. But back in the day.. I used to be great with the math-part, but horrible with getting my numbers correct; I think I have some mild form of dyscalculia if that is possible.

I don't know how math in highschool was in your country, but in mine we got a sheet with the questions and then blank sheets of scientific paper (is that what you call it? the ones with the grid?) to do the calculations. So the question may state 42/7 , and I would copy it over to my sheet as 72/4 and get 18 instead of the correct 6 for the actual question. I would do the correct calculations, but use the wrong numbers. Especially bad when you had to solve the equations and things in steps, because I would mutate the numbers in every step.

I did absolutely horrible in math, but I had a very good grasp of the theories behind it. Also, I was especially good with the story-problems, I don't know why.

Maths is one of my strongest subjects. I am in a high set at school, and I can do many high level parts of maths with ease.

REALLY good at lightning calculations and getting complex math concepts, but very sensitive to stereotype threat. Unfortunately, many math classes here are taught by men who trigger that sensitivity (either white dudes in their fifties with nasty dispositions or very young men with.... attitude problems.... when you ask questions), so my homework average in calculus courses is 98% (no, really), but my test averages are consistently abominable.

I am quite good at mental arithmetic.

I'm not in to linear equations or algebra though. I can learn it but it just doesn't sit well with me.