How were you at maths?

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It was up and down for me. I think it had something to do with my teachers, because they said I should have learned something similar to this, but never learned anything like it at all.

I was bad and Per-Algebra but did well in Algebra and Geometry until we got to Trigonometry. I was good at some parts but bad at others.

Also I would solve problems, mostly, but the way I went about solving them was different from the way I was supposed to. It would sometimes lead to wrong answers too. I don't know how I came up with my way of solving problems.

Same here. But before I got myself diagnosed I was told I was just being lazy and not applying myself enough. Some people (namely my brother) still say I'm lazy and not applying myself enough. They claim that labels such as dyscalculia, dyslexia and dysgraphia are just excused made up by left wingers so people don't have to work hard.

Ask these "people are all the same" pests why they are not playing pro sports or getting a Nobel.

I will if it gets brought up again.

I was average. I added and subtracted because it was all counting. But I had a hard time understanding carrying and borrowing and then I understood it when I knew if it's ten or above, you carry the one and with borrowing it's always crossing out the number and going down one and putting the one next to the other number on the right. Times tables I memorized and it was all from memory of how to do the problems, same with division. Then as math got more complex as I got older, it was too much to remember because there was a bunch of problems to do in one problem like multiplication, division, adding and subtracting and I had a hard time with fractions and I couldn't remember how to do the problems and it was too complex to know how to do them and how to remember and then I had a hard time with algebra and geometry and could never do any of the problems. I cannot visualize things in my head and know the shape. I couldn't learn to do algebra because it was too abstract. I don't even have a math disorder and I keep being told lot of people have troubles in math but I know it's not to the same degree I have. If that were the case, then everyone would be in special ed and would need to be given special math assignments and no one would be taking high school math in high school or middle school math in middle school because it would be too hard. Unless I am just lazy and the school just gave up on me because I wasn't grasping the concepts and we did move so there was a big jump in math so it went from fractions and doing square roots to algebra all at once when we moved so instead of going to where I was in math and then having me go from there, they gave up.

I often understood how to do it, but messed up with the calculation. I added when I was supposed to subtract, multiplied when I was supposed to divide, treated one number as another number, and stuff like that.

Now, I'm sort of doing the bare minimum necessary for school, so I just remember things without really bothering to understand them.

Mathematics is my special talent -->so I became an engineer.

I was always terrible at math, and still am. I'm really slow at counting with big numbers, and some basic stuff like counting percentages still gives me trouble.

Struggle with anything to do with numbers. Even basic simple addition etc

Making quick numeric estimates for ballpark figures seems much easier than getting exact numbers. Several times I've read advertisements and laughed, knowing the claims could not be true, and wondering why others didn't get the joke. I'm surprised at how easy this makes it to win certain bets. Knowing how numbers are constrained by physics helps.

I was horrible at math. The highest grade I ever got was a C.

I was terrible at Maths could barely understand many of the basic concepts. Eventually I did pass it last year with a C grade thanks to plenty of additional study.

Maths is one of my strongest subjects. I don't love it, but I still enjoy my lessons.
Thing is, though, I tend to understand most topics straightaway as they all connect together, but when I come to do a questions I make loads of careless mistakes that I don't notice until later.

I have dysclaculia too. I used to cry during maths lessons sometimes because it really overwhelmed me.

I think I'm average when it comes to maths ? I remember crying in a maths class when I was called to the front of the class to recite my 7 times table - my mind went blank after 21 and I just broke down ( I think I'm a little traumatised of this memory ).

Times-tables are still my bête noire - I've never managed to learn them. I manage by using addition or by using simple multiplication like n x 10 (and possibly halving that for x 5) and then using addition or subtraction.