[ SECRET POST #2450 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2450 ⌋

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Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

How would a person who thinks they are bad at math be able to tell if what they actually are is bad at math class, in your opinion? I ask as the anon above who is great with electronics and, as far as I know, bad at math. I'm genuinely curious.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

Basically, find out if you're already doing math and don't know it, I guess? I don't know enough about electronics to say anything, but there's this (obviously rather biased!) link: http://weusemath.org/?career=electrical-engineer Maybe if you're in a school situation and have an instructor in electronics you're comfortable with, you could ask what math you've been doing implicitly?

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

Not OP

I figured this out for myself many years after school. One day I just realized that I use math a lot in my daily/weekly life and it was pretty much never an issue when I had to do it. It's mostly basics but sometimes not and I've had to look up formulas to calculate stuff but once I have the formula, I can do it. I had the formulas in math class but couldn't use them at all. It was like my whole being froze in terror the instant I stepped into the classroom and didn't unfreeze until I left again.

Re: OP

[starphotographs]

People who are bad at math class... Well, do so/so in math classes. But are generally able to perform tasks requiring numbers without resorting to work-arounds.

But if you're actually bad at math, especially past a certain point, you have trouble doing all kinds of things that most people don't really think of as math. Things like... Well, using myself as an example, I can't tell the difference between a group of five objects from a group of four objects at first glance, and have to look for the "odd one out" to be sure. Also, things like having trouble replicating a sequence of any kind.

Some people (myself included) will also have issues with things that don't seem related. Like left-right confusion, poor sense of time, trouble reading analog clocks, etc. But I think the biggest thing to look out for is if you find yourself doing weird stuff when faced with a number-related task. (I count change by thinking of different coins as different ingredients and memorizing the "formulas" for different amounts of money. And probably a million other screwheaded things that I'm not remembering because they're just the way I do things and not at all unusual. :P)

[diabolicalfiend]

I don't know, I have a degree in maths and I have all those issues. I just look for the odd one out, use my hands to decide left and right, digital clocks. I was just taught reasonably well.

[starphotographs]

Well, I've also noticed that someone can have unusual number sense without it necessarily being poor. But yeah, I think that there are probably all kinds of brain variations that cause those things.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

Here's how you know. If you can solve a problem and get the correct answer, but be told you didn't find the answer the correct way and therefore it does not count? You're bad at math class.