| Are you mathematically able? |
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61% |
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31% |
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5% |
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1% |
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ProfessorP
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 Posted: Wed May 02, 2012 12:07 am Post subject: Mathematically able |
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I am extremely able in some types of math--I had perfect scores on math ACT tests and math portion of GMATs. Statistics are generally easy for me. Nonetheless, I find some types of math very difficult.
I wonder if this is typical for Aspies. Does anyone else have a similar experience in which some types of math are very easy and others are very difficult? |
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Sempiternal
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Joined: Feb 14, 2012
Age: 16
Posts: 8082
Location: Silicon Valley, CA
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| Posted: Wed May 02, 2012 12:38 am Post subject: Re: Mathematically able |
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I think I'm mathematically able, but I'm not amazingly good at it. My lowest grade happens to always be in math, but apparently, I'm two math grades ahead. My parents also constantly say that I struggle in math and gave me a huuuuge lecture when I got a B+ once. And this year, I got really depressed and didn't study for a test, and my grade dropped down to an A- and they almost gave me a lecture for that. 
| ProfessorP wrote: | I am extremely able in some types of math--I had perfect scores on math ACT tests and math portion of GMATs. Statistics are generally easy for me. Nonetheless, I find some types of math very difficult.
I wonder if this is typical for Aspies. Does anyone else have a similar experience in which some types of math are very easy and others are very difficult? |
I haven't been diagnosed yet, but I absolutely hate Geometry and Algebra is okay for me. As for my father, (whom, as far as I know, is NT), he also despises Geometry, is fine with Algebra, and found Calculus extremely easy. I hope it's the same for me. 
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Senath
Deinonychus
Joined: May 17, 2012
Posts: 357
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| Posted: Sat May 19, 2012 3:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Declension wrote: | I understand. I voted anyway.
Just pointing out, there in fact have been many capable mathematicians with something akin to dyscalculia, as strange as it may sound. David Hilbert is a good example. Hilbert often forgot things like what 7+5 equals, but he could construct an intricate proof showing some fact about all natural numbers. In mathematics, the general is more important than the specific. |
Agreed! I make "careless" mistakes sometimes but I am easily able to understand the mathematical concepts themselves. |
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Senath
Deinonychus
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I find it interesting that I like mathematical concepts but I cannot perform calculations unless I truly understand the concepts behind them. If there's something I'm getting stuck on conceptually it frustrates me to no end and really upsets me and it makes it very hard, even when there are rules that I should be able to just memorize like everyone else to do the calculations required for math classes.
One other thing in regards to my relationship with mathematics- I hate trigonometry. Something about combining geometry and calculus is incredibly difficult and slow for my brain to process. Once I get the concepts I'm usually OK, but here I get stumped a lot. |
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redrobin62
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Age: 50
Posts: 3833
Location: Seattle, WA
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| Posted: Sat May 19, 2012 5:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Geometry and algebra are okay with me. Calculus throws me for a loop though. |
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ProfessorP
Yellow-bellied Woodpecker
Joined: Jan 01, 2012
Age: 61
Posts: 53
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| Posted: Sat May 19, 2012 5:34 pm Post subject: concepts |
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| Senath wrote: | I find it interesting that I like mathematical concepts but I cannot perform calculations unless I truly understand the concepts behind them. If there's something I'm getting stuck on conceptually it frustrates me to no end and really upsets me and it makes it very hard, even when there are rules that I should be able to just memorize like everyone else to do the calculations required for math classes.
One other thing in regards to my relationship with mathematics- I hate trigonometry. Something about combining geometry and calculus is incredibly difficult and slow for my brain to process. Once I get the concepts I'm usually OK, but here I get stumped a lot. |
I am the same way. I was at the bottom of my graduate class that studied linear programming, but I was able to develop original applicaitons of LP that eluded other people. I believe that everyone else was able to memorize the processes and repeat those processes. I could not do that. When I finally understood how things worked, however, I was ahead of the others. |
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RazorEddie
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Age: 42
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| Posted: Sat May 19, 2012 6:06 pm Post subject: |
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I am pretty good at geometry and algebra but I really have trouble with calculus. I'm also not very good at mental arithmetic. Even now I very often still count on my fingers.
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AnonymousAnonymous
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Age: 22
Posts: 22543
Location: Portland, Oregon
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| Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2012 2:52 pm Post subject: |
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I am very terrible at math, although there are some exceptions I can do reasonably.
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Flamencita
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Age: 20
Posts: 37
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| Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2012 1:17 pm Post subject: |
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I wonder if a lot of us consider ourselves "mathematically challenged" and find maths hard merely because the way that everyone else does it doesn't make sense to us.
I find it hard to add up the values of playing cards and work out what change to give/get but I'm pretty sure if I worked on it I could find a way that would enable me to be good at it. Likewise at school I found I couldn't just use the formulas for certain things, but if I understood them I could. |
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humanhatred
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Joined: Jun 09, 2012
Age: 17
Posts: 5978
Location: Australia
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| Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2012 4:54 am Post subject: |
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| I am terrible at maths. |
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Aoibh
Yellow-bellied Woodpecker
Joined: Jun 01, 2012
Age: 18
Posts: 54
Location: London, England
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| Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 5:14 am Post subject: |
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AS and brilliant at maths, if I can say that without sounding up myself.
Got an A* at GCSE without even listening in class or revising. Now doing A level and enjoying it.
Absolutely love algebra and statistics, but I can't do anything to do with shapes at all.
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ianorlin
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Joined: Oct 23, 2012
Posts: 718
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| Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2012 11:45 am Post subject: |
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| My problem in the high level of math class I have now is justifying my step at upper division university level hard to make professor understand my proofs and I work a little slow. |
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Chami
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Joined: Oct 10, 2012
Posts: 32
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| Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2012 11:57 am Post subject: |
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| If I cannot visualize it, I am more or less unable to do it. :-/ Have failed or dropped the college algebra class 6 times....it is the only thing standing in the way of getting my degree. |
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namaste
Enigmatic Charismatically Odd
Joined: Apr 15, 2011
Posts: 1841
Location: Hindustan
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Dyscalculia totally unable to do math
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littlelily613
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Age: 29
Posts: 3607
Location: Canada
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I would say I am fairly average. There is lots of math I can do with no problems. My troubles begin in the more advanced areas of geometry, algebra, caluclus, trig, etc.
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