Maths and English

YES, Deafteen, there is math disability -called dyscalculia technically. I have it. It relates to math and others thing <for me> like directions, spatial orientation, telling time, sequences>. I am also part of mathLD forum name dyscaluliaforum.com. Most folks w/math-related LD have no or few issues w/languages, text, history that kinda thing but have difficulties in the areas I described, to varying degrees. Difficulties such that there is a huge gap between potential and actual achievement in math-related classes in school. So math-related LD, like any LD, carries over into adult life like with driving, taxes, figuring tips, making change, etc. I did not learn how to count money or tell time til high school, have difficulty w/left and right, etc. Never in habit of wearing watch cuz I never understood them. YES, very undiagnosed, especially in girls. I was a shy child, w/speech and language difficulties<mainstream/resource room combo> and read early and well but was always soooo confused in math - but no one saw that because my reading skills compensated for my math well enough. But I failed remedial college <course required based on pre-college math skills tests, was also required in order to take a different -actual - college math class for credit > math 3x before I self-diagnosed and went to DSS and was tested officially. Was put in class for college students w/math LD - just two of us. I finally learned 1/4 and a quarter were same! Things like that -
 
I can't count 6 times 8 without calculator :o but in high school I was the best in algebra and trig as well as Exponentiation... I don't remember much of it nowadays :giggle:
 
Daredevel7 said:
I'm very good at math, but I'm pretty horrendous at English. I have good grammar but I can't interpret poems to save my life. Once I read a poem and I thought it was about love, and uuuuuh turns out that it was about abortion. How did I miss that? Needless to say, I can't understand Shakespeare's writings either. (Although, I do like certain lines.)

Also, very bad at history. I am not very good at memorization. I'm more of a problem solver.

Some people are good at things. Some are not. Oh well.
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sounds like me. almost. Poem? If my life and the fate of world depends on me to understand the poem for password to disable the Armageddon bomb..... sorry :(
 
JamieLynn said:
I can't count 6 times 8 without calculator :o but in high school I was the best in algebra and trig as well as Exponentiation... I don't remember much of it nowadays :giggle:
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PowerOn - help her. what's 6 x 8?
 
deafbajagal said:
And the cool thing about Dyscalculia...you can sometimes solve the problem by spelling out the numbers...lol. But not always. Often Dyscalculia is conjoined with another type of dyslexia, if I remember correctly. But it does happen - and it's underdiagnosed.
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You are correct. And yes, because people are so adpatable, and use strategies that actually hide the differences in their processing, it is qidely underdiagnosed. Someone who has it doesn't even realize that they have a different way of perception than others for years and years.
 
jillio said:
You are correct. And yes, because people are so adpatable, and use strategies that actually hide the differences in their processing, it is qidely underdiagnosed. Someone who has it doesn't even realize that they have a different way of perception than others for years and years.
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This would be me.

I have all sorts of learning issues when it comes to Math, but you'd never really know how severe my disabilities are because I can adapt very well to them. It was actually a pain when I was in school because people were trying to deny me services due to my ablity to cope. We often heard..."She doesn't really need that, does she?"
 
Oceanbreeze said:
This would be me.

I have all sorts of learning issues when it comes to Math, but you'd never really know how severe my disabilities are because I can adapt very well to them. It was actually a pain when I was in school because people were trying to deny me services due to my ablity to cope. We often heard..."She doesn't really need that, does she?"
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yeah that was my brothers problem... his CAPD caused him many problems but he 'faked it' thru to the 8th or 9th grade... it was hard to get him services b/c he compensated so well...
 
society's_child said:
Yeah, what is it? :scratch:
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:giggle: I had to use calculator to do that (yes! I'm not kidding!!!).

6 times 8 equals 48

:D

So proud... though I wish I could really do this on my own. Multiplication by 6, 7 and 8 aren't any of my favorites... :roll: I just can't do it!
 
I hate 7,8,9 time tables, it tsakes me forever to work it out lol
 
JamieLynn said:
:giggle: I had to use calculator to do that (yes! I'm not kidding!!!).

6 times 8 equals 48

:D

So proud... though I wish I could really do this on my own. Multiplication by 6, 7 and 8 aren't any of my favorites... :roll: I just can't do it!
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Thanks. Back in HS, I used to duck behind my classmates cuz I was terrified that my math teacher would call on me to solve an equation. :Ohno:
 
society's_child said:
Thanks. Back in HS, I used to duck behind my classmates cuz I was terrified that my math teacher would call on me to solve an equation. :Ohno:
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Don't remind me of high school... I'm the loser and bookworm everybody tries to avoid... So imagine what it was like for me to go up to the board... :shock:

I'm so glad it's all over, yet I'm still trying to overcome shyness and several anxities because of it. Reason why I am (yet again) in therapy :( hate it!
 
JamieLynn said:
:giggle: I had to use calculator to do that (yes! I'm not kidding!!!).

6 times 8 equals 48

:D

So proud... though I wish I could really do this on my own. Multiplication by 6, 7 and 8 aren't any of my favorites... :roll: I just can't do it!
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Wrong! it's 1! :giggle:
 
Isn't it a shame that we put the responsibility on the child rather than the other way around?
 
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