How were you at maths?

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I was ok at algebra and arithmetic but really poor at geometry .

Generally was how the teacher taught the subject for me. I can get anything in math because it is just hardcore logic, but if the person can't explain the logic in a well thought out manner, then I won't get it.

I have dyscalculia.

I was okay at math, but I always hated it. I did well in every math class I took except for Algebra.

I did well until I got to Algebra. I did all right the first semester, but then it just stopped making sense. I took a math survey class in college and did well, getting a B. It encompassed algebra, geometry and statistics and probability, which I found quite interesting. I was always more of a word person than a numbers person.

I have dyscalculia but it wasn't diagnosed until adulthood. If I had been diagnosed earlier, things might have been better.

I was rubbish at Mathematics, especially arithmetic. Of all the subjects at school, maths was the one I was most insecure about.

I guess I found it boring but I think the biggest reason I struggled was because, frankly, maths classes always made me feel stupid. I was slower at picking up concepts and I found it difficult to visualise numbers. It's not that I am incapable of learning the subject but maybe I was taught it poorly. In fact many mathematicians concur that maths are taught very lazily in schools which sucks for people who struggle in a typical classroom setting.

I also have ADHD (which I only recently discovered) and I found that the class structure really made learning maths feel like pulling teeth. My best maths teacher would break down the class into smaller chunks and I improved a lot because of her. I just wish I got to keep her for later years.

As an adult, I have basic maths skills and I get along okay. In fact I remember being in uni and being shocked at how many students were worse at mental arithmetic than me. That being said I think I should practice more. Numbers are only boring if I let them be.

I was very good at maths in school, I was in a separate 'gifted' class with a few other students and I did an extra GCSE in Stats which was self-taught.

Then in college I was made to do maths instead of art. I almost physically can't learn things when I don't want to. So I got a U (unmarked) in that class. I did really bad.

Terrible at all of it apart from patterns and symmetry, which I excelled at.

Dyscalculia or 'math disorder' as they called it really is cruel, there really is no accommodation for it. I'm useless without a calculator.

Though I was never fond of maths before, I was always decent at algebra and mental arithmetic, less so in more 'spatial' areas such as trigonometry.
Nowadays I've been all but forced to get very comfortable with maths. It is a required thing if you want to pursue most science fields.

I was bad at all of it, even with practice and tutoring. I excelled at reading and writing, though.

Can't do arithmetic (not even my 3 times table, but I can count really quickly which helps) but I am skilled at vector/ tensor calculus, matrices and algebra. The less numbers there are the easier it gets for me.

The trick is to try and find ways to visualise what is happening, once you can do that the numbers are almost irrelevant. Using Matlab or wolframalpha.com to plot the functions really helps with this.

Not my favourite subject, but when I studied it along with my mother I would always notice that I actually understood some of it and it would probably helped if I would have asked questions.

I think a more general problem with me never asking questions is because I have never felt like I was not understanding it but understanding it in a way I thought was correct. This is however a problem that I didn't know a solution for and teachers always hated it when I tried explaining this to them.

But back to the topic, the only time that I was starting to get good at math was during 10th grade when we started having our finals for high school and I tried my best to study as good for math as possible knowing that I would never have to do it ever again for a grade lol

Arithmetic on the other hand is still a subject that I get at college and I still find it a pretty hard subject but I am starting to notice that I'm getting better at it. I think the reason for that is that you have to be able to pass college on level 3 of arithmetic, which is the highest on vocational level and we're currently at level 1 and 2 again. Originally I was still on level 2 when we had to be on level 3 already during my old college but because I switched majors I have to start at the beginning again and we're working to level 2.
This was probably a bit confusing heheheheh oops

I was always really good at math. I might have trouble understanding a concept at first, but then I caught on and did well at it. But I really struggled with calculus last year.

It is one of my strong points. Growing up I was taking mathematics classes two or three years above my grade level most of the time. I loved learning linear algebra (matrices) as it can be used to do symmetry operations upon lattice systems (for single crystal X-ray diffraction, a chemist's structural technique). As an undergrad in college, it was one of my three minors (math, physics, history).