SmokingTarpan

Reading and writing for me is easier than store-bought cake. Math, on the other hand, is a nightmare (and I'm 28 years old). Personally, there's two reasons why I suck at math:

1- My mind just doesn't work the way math does. I learn far more easily through association, concepts (I got a D in algebra, a B in calculus) and actually DOING something, as opposed to remembering set rules. Plus, math just plain isn't interesting to me, and that makes it 10x harder to learn.

2- I wasn't taught to do math, I was taught how to use a calculator. From Jr. High on, having a calculator was a requirement for any class from algebra to geometry to physics. It's sad, but I've just been learning how to do what might be simple math things in my head over the past few years. Something easy, such as finding what 85% of 320 is, takes a 50-year old friend of mine like 5 seconds to do in his head, but can take me 30sec or more.

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ScratchMonkey

I don't equate math (figuring out how to arrange the equation to get my answer) to arithmetic (turning the resulting crank to get actual numbers). I'm not great at arithmetic and prefer to check it with a calculator, but I'm pretty good at math.

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