Autism

i have a masters degree in math but i still use a calculator anytime either of the numbers is 2 digits or more

When Common Core math came out and people were up in arms against it, I wanted to know what the big deal was. I researched it, read that it makes mental math easier, and deciding to learn/practice it myself.

I understand the parents who struggled to help kids with their homework, since they weren't taught the same way and if you're just thrown into it, it's hard to figure out. Though how it turned into this big hullabaloo was an extreme reaction. Mental math has become very easy for me since learning it, which makes me think many of us missed out on a method that could've helped us a lot.

So, no, I don't struggle with math. What I struggle with is the confidence to believe I've come to the right answer. I usually do math calculations more than once because I doubt myself. My first college mathematics professor gave me a reality check about it once, as he was getting frustrated that I wouldn't put my hand up even though he knew I had figured out the answers. I can still see him standing there, going, "Come on, Whats_your_reasoning, I know you've got it. What's the answer? Just say it!"

I was the opposite. Math was, if not easy, then simple. Every math problem has a specific set of steps you take to solve it, and a single objective answer. Unlike literature, there's no room for differing opinions or interpretation. It meshed very nicely with my black-and-white worldview.

I have studied so much goddamn math in my life...

...and yet the hardest parts of being a trainer has been a) counting reps and b) subtracting 45 from a number and dividing it by 2.

Just because you're not good with large logical operations doesn't mean you're dumb.

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Sometimes I divide numbers by ten and just the moment before I press equals I realize what I've done. But then it's to late.

I have dyscalculia. So call me Mason because I have no fucking clue what the numbers means.

1000/44.94
= 22.25189141076991544281

22*44.94
= 988.68

100000/44.94
= 2225.18914107699154428126

2225*44.94
= 99991.5

16*3.33
= 53.28

39-11
= 28

There. I don't think I have anything to be particularly embarrassed about. Well, except maybe that last one.

math was the only fun subject to me

I struggle with arithmetic. Generally i do think this is a case of just not using it, thanks to calculators

I'm gifted in other ways.

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I can do arithmetic without a calculator, it just takes me a lot longer. Simple addition/subtraction/multiplication/division? It can sometimes take me what feels like an "embarrassingly long* amount of time. Multivariable calculus though? I breeze right through it (it's the basic arithmetic involved with it that takes me most of the time lol)

I had issues with making mistakes over long calculations. So math where your calculations were like a page long meant I would very likely have the wrong answer. So basic math no real problem and begining algebra to. then advanced algebra bad. geometry and trig good. precalc and whatever was put with it bad. beginning calc good. advanced calc and differential equations. ugh. im not really sure if im autistic or adhd or anything but im definately not normal. that is any place I worked im fairly sure im the wierd guy but like quirky weird. i mean not everywhere. im in tech and I have worked in places where I was closer to norm.

Yup. Its called Dyscalculia.

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