Were any of you guys really awful at math once?

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I've been struggling with it since coming out of my mother. When I see numbers, I just phase out. I do have ADHD, but I just absorb chemistry like a sponge so I don't think it's that.

It makes me sad because I want to major in biochemistry.

I been having some stages.

I started school at 3 years, and got advanced to second grade because i knew too much, and when i got to third year school got me out because i was too young, my mother tried to make the school allowed me to got advance more years, she thought i was prepared to be between 5-6 grade.

In that stage i was genious lvl at all.

I started secondary(6 grade) and my grades got so low that people thought i was ret*d, i barely could got out of school, and enter into a engineering in a good university.

In this stage i was under normal lvl at all.

I started engineering and without studying because of my adhd, i got top grades, sometimes i fail because are practice based subjects im not interested, so i just fail or near to fail, but when the subjects are intelligent based i got good grades all the time.

In this stage im genious lvl again.


So i was doing very bad at secondary in all, because of my social anxiety, and because i didnt understand the use of those formulas, when i got into college i saw all the things math could do, and i started to be good in that again, and other subjects, also there is the good thing, that you dont have to go to classes, and you can do group work by yourself, it could be hard, but you dont have to be with other people, so maybe you should try a little hard in math, you could be very good.

I flunked math part of my first year of high school, but it turned out that the teacher was trying to flunk me out of his class because he didn't like me.

I didn't even know I had any talent in math at the time, but I went on to earn a BS and MS in Math. Years later, I beat the teacher that tried to flunk me out of his class for a job teaching math at a local college.

Payback is sweet.

I've always been bad at maths. Absolutely hate it...

I am terrible at maths: it's as if there is a complete mental block for me. Recently someone at work was trying to explain something mathematical to me but after 10 minutes they gave up in despair. I just try and avoid maths at all costs.

If you want to major in biochemistry just work on math more. I thought I was terrible at math but when I look at what a fraction of time I spent compared to others who actually did homework I came out pretty good. Now I am studying business math because I find balancing accounts a rush for some reason. Go figure. It's about time invested in learning anything. You will get it if you put in the time. They have free tutors in college too.

I've aways had a mental block with maths and was constantly told I was stupid or not trying hard enough at school. It turns out that I have a problem with abstract and relational thinking. I took my maths GCSE at the age of 30 (In England GCSE's are usually taken at age 16) and passed with flying colours because I had a tutor that knew how to make it real for me - It sounds childish, but she explained trigonometry to me by pretending we were designing little teepees, and so in my head I was designing teepees when doing the trig questions in the exam - I needed that picture in my head to make sense of it. If possible (I don't know what the learning support is like where you are), get a tutor that can understand the way that your brain processes things so they can tailor their teaching method to you - and never be afraid to keep asking questions if you don't understand. A good tutor willl be happy to keep answering them for as long as it takes. I was kicked out of one of my schools at 14 for not making enough effort even though I tried my best: turns out it was them who hadn't made enough effort to teach me!

I was always horrible at math. I liked graphs, the quadratic and sine and cosine graphs, but only because it was fun getting to plot the graphs on graph paper and then get data from them. I had to take calculus in university but I had no choice so I forced myself to learn everything and then promptly forgot everything after the final exam. Statistics was awful too.

I'm a chemistry major and I suck(ed) at math. Calculus makes more sense to me because it involves a lot of visual things such as graphs. The school I go to requires Calculus I and II for chem majors along with Physics I and II. I really wouldn't worry about math if you want to major in biochemistry. I'm really good at chemistry even though my math skills are garbage.

Once? LOL, there's a reason I'm a music major in college. I can't even calculate a tip in my head.

I have no idea how I made it through high school math, but I'm sure glad I don't have to do any of that anymore.

I can do math quite well as long as I can visualize an example of what I'm doing. It is when it gets so abstract that I can't easily visualize it that gives me problems.

Yep I'm bad at maths I have Dyscalculia.

I flunked college algebra once. And I got a D in statistics. Then I ended up getting a B in college algebra, a certificate saying that I was better at college algebra than a great majority of the US, and I got an A in statistics. And you're correct if you suspect that my professors rarely used +'s/-'s with letter grades.

I did not do well in collage algebra, but I tried very hard. I did do well using trig.

In grade school picked up a little multiplication memorized some of the table and some basic concepts of adding in third grade but not enough to be useful, essentially I was math illiterate till 8th grade.
In all the grades they had this box with various lessons in it I the back of the room, it would have the various math lessons that you were suppose to go through at your own pace. What really happens is the teacher would sit at there desk maybe drink coffee and baby sit. I sure wasted several years to that completely unproductive method of teaching.

This teacher in eight grade broke the rules as it was. She had an overhead projector with a plastic side roller that you could write on. She went through everything from basic addition and ended with fractions. She she expanding things step by step in a concrete fashion. So that's where I learned most all of my math.

I'm okay in most areas, but there's some areas in maths that seem darn near impossible to me.

I'm crap at maths, Some people say some autistic people are geniuses at maths, Well i'm not, im bottom set for every lesson. I have a big problem with Division and Fractions.