How's your Math

[linda_joyce]

Having entered my second half century I have always assumed that I was bad at Math,it just wasn't my thing and that everybody that was 'bad at math' was bad in the same way I am. Thanks to Snowgrouse who asked if there was a mathematical equivalent of Dyslexia as she thought she suffered from it and listed her problems and a friend of hers who knew the answers I have discovered that she, and I, suffer from discalculia.

Go to www.discaculia.org and see if you match up, it's me to a T.

It's good to know I'm not stupid, one of the words used by a Math teacher for me when I went to Grammar school. Thankfully she only took us for a year, my first year unfortunately and she managed to destroy what little confidence I had in that subject. My next math teacher , Mr Axford, spent the next 4 years building me back up again and got me through Maths O level. I really was blessed with some marvelous teachers between 11 and 15.

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[snowgrouse.livejournal.com]

I'm also glad to hear I'm not stupid. Guh. I did well in everything else *except* maths. That pissed me off like nothing else.

Glad you had good maths teachers, I'm thanking mine for being *merciful*.

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

Looking back I remember hating Chopper at the time. He made me do the same thing time after time after time until I got it. And I did eventually get most of it. It probably not the recommended method of teaching us dicalculist but it worked for me so I am thanking him now.