There are 3 kinds of people in the world, those that can add and those that can not. Which one are you?

You might also say there are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that understand binary and those that do not.

Just joshin’. I totes know my mathematicals. :)

I am one of those who can not.
Math is a foreign language to me.

Math is absolutely lost on me. It’s kind of embarrassing, really, when I have to take a moment to think about a simple multiplication problem. I’m just not number oriented at all.

Don’t you mean quandary? Apparently English isn’t your subject either =)

As for me, I am a math person. Math and understanding concepts/basics, anything logical etc is what I do best. When it comes to memorizing, that’s when I have my problems.

I adore math! I use it to solve practically anything whether it be how to adjust the angle of our house’s gutters so they more effectively drain the rainwater, to making acronyms sound way cooler to integrating trigonometry into Spanish Mississippi School for Math and Science= MSMS= MS^2; My best friends and me=Kristen, Kalina, Sadhvi, Sabrina, Sindhu, Sloane/Rebecca=K^2S^4/R; teacher making motions with her hands to signify to infinity of the imperfect tense and I declare, “Sinusoid graph!”

(And FWIW, quandary and laundry do not rhyme: Qwahndry and lawwndry.)

Picky picky!

Once upon a time, a long time ago I was quite good at math, though the first time I took Algebra, I failed the whole class. I think I was too literal, and couldn’t understand for the life of me why there were letters in my math! I took it again later and got an ‘A’.

Then, after I was very ill for about a year (over-active thyroid that just about killed me only to turn into an under-active thyroid) I had lost all my higher math ability. These days, it has to be a fairly simple problem for me to be able to solve it in my head.

I have dyscalculia. I understand math in theory but I have an awful time with actual arithmetic.

@MacBean: That’s interesting…I’d never heard the term before. How did you deal with that in school?

@augustlan—I failed a lot! I juuuuuuust squeaked by the requirements to get my diploma. Everybody assumed I just didn’t like numbers and that was the only issue. I was intelligent and creative and insightful in all my other classes. I couldn’t possibly have had an actual problem!

—Making me wonder…my middle child is gifted and was fine with math right up until Algebra in 7th grade. Now she’s in Geometry and is still struggling.

Argh!