Does anyone else's brain feel funny when they read mathematical stuff?

[hunkermunker]

Like this - TwinsetandPearls posted it on another thread:

Level 8
Pupils solve problems involving calculating with powers, roots and numbers expressed in standard form, checking for correct order of magnitude. They choose to use fractions or percentages to solve problems involving repeated proportional changes or the calculation of the original quantity given the result of a proportional change. They evaluate algebraic formulae, substituting fractions, decimals and negative numbers. They calculate one variable, given the others, in formulae such as V = Yr2h. Pupils manipulate algebraic formulae, equations and expressions, finding common factors and multiplying two linear expressions. They know that a 2 -b 2= (a+b)(a - b). They solve inequalities in two variables. Pupils sketch and interpret graphs of linear, quadratic, cubic and reciprocal functions, and graphs that model real situations.

I actually feel queasy trying to read it.

(I know this isn't deemed particularly hard maths, btw. But it's still too hard for me!)

my brain switched off at roots

The room's spinning and I can hear an increasingly urgent voice in my head chanting, 'Do not compute. Do not compute.'

sorry, can't get past the second sentence without eyes actually crossing!

yes, am dreading when kids get real maths homework, it really does make me feel sick. I give up halfway thru and have to shake my head in manner of cow or horse.

I want to say do you think maths is (or was) taught very badly?? But don't want to offend maths teachers. Almost no one I know is good/confident in maths.........

I'm not being flippant, despite previous form today

I am genuinely interested. It feels like my brain's folding in on itself and my eyes get all peculiar when I try to do anything other than basic arithmetic (and even that's hard sometimes).

I can't read it, my brain just turns it all into mush as soon as I look at it.

I hate maths.

I had bad teachers, definitely.

And I wasn't allowed to start maths at primary school because there weren't enough worksheets Because I had a summer birthday, I had to wait till the older children had finished the first one.

Yes, I am now going out feeling totally inadequate .

i remember being quite good at maths once too

I feel queasy with the educational jargon more than with the maths tbh, though it'd take me a good few minutes to remember how to sketch the graph of a reciprocal function.

(I did eventually start, btw - then when I was in year six I filled seven maths exercise books and half an English book in a year and I was put off FOR LIFE!)

DH is irritatingly good a maths, can do mental arithmetic, percentages etc...
I'm pretty weak, I can do some if I really really concentrate and have a pen and paper. I think we both got a B at GCSE and went to the same school through most of GCSEs with same maths teacher...his head just works that way, mine doesn't...I can do words...although not as well as I used to...think brain is atrophying...(?sp??) ( see!!)

Mrs Badger!!! It would take me the rest of my life to understand 'reciprocal function'. I kneel at the temple of your fabulous mathematicalness.

NG, it feels like someone's kneeling on my temples!

My nuerons are not configured correctly for maths.

I have the same room spinning sense of panic when the Inland revenue send in my self assessment form or when DH says, 'spidermama, let's re-negotiate our mortgage so the interest only blenky blophemeister, herflunk chooneg marty-grim pally hebdo as a percentage of the monthly shimp-festing, flib-mojo'. I nod vigourously, eyes glazed.

The blenky flibmeister stuff made more sense to me than the maths, SM. I read it without the rising panic that I get with the "if it takes a man three hours to dig a hole, how long does it take a bath to drain out assuming you remove the plug on Tuesday and the volume of the cat you first thought of is n to the power of 17" stuff.

I have always been useless at maths and just never
got it!I always say that i am dsylexic with numbers,i think you can be?

spidermama my DH speaks exactly the same language as yours!
I try SO hard to be a proper modern women who is involved in financial decision making...and DH tries SO hard to involve me...but we both just end up shrugging and letting him get on with it!!

Yes, dyscalculia it's called.

I'm dyscalculic.

I cant even say that!

Is it really hunker?

Yes, SM!

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