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.

NG I am not a temple of mathness!
if anything am more like a small Welsh tin chapel of mathness...
DH is much mathier than me, and I do the same glazed look as spidermama when he tries to explain business finance to me.

There's a brilliant passage in one of Stephen Fry's books about how the character's brain is Not Configured for Science.

Ha! Online diagnosis $550 eh? I'm not that discalculic.
They're having a laugh.

Oh, blimey! Didn't see that bit.

The symptom list on there is me to a T though.

Anything remotely mathmatical is migraine inducing as far as I am concerned.

My brother is both musical and mathmetical, he says it's about patterns..... or something. Don't get it myself.

mathematical, that is

Yes..it brings back bad memories of totally incomprehensible maths lessons, being told off and my dad losing patience with me Maths books even used to smell funny to me!

At least I can remember that the colon of the square root of 80 is equidistant to the cosine multiplied by the retinue of a right-angled triangle. That has stood me in good stead.

i feel i need to lie down after reading that

I'm v non mathematical but actually i think its just written in a way that shouts "I'm the clevereyest clever person that ever lived in clever land and you're too stupid for me to notice".

Scarily my father is a mathematician (proper scary university one) and DH is studying for a maths degree for fun

i once made myself throw up rather than admit I'd left my maths book at home because I was so terrified of the teacher

waves "hello Miss Collins, I still haven't had to measure the height of a tree thanks all the same for your trigonometry"

IMy whole being, mind, body, the lot, just shuts down when confronted when anything even slightly mathematical.

I was crap at maths at school and as such was in a very low maths group. For some reason every single year the maths teacher was SHIT, really bad, couldn't control class etc.
With homework I had to ask my dad for help who used to get so impatient with me and shout that I just pretended to understand and I'd just freeze and switch off.

Mathematical problems literally make me feel panicked.

pmsl re the tree meowmix!

I guess it's a mark of our freakish mathyness that DH and I actually used trigonometry to work out whether our loft was big enough to extend into...

oh the shame...

MrsB, that's a bit pervy.

I tell myself that I am perfectly, yes, perfectly capable of understanding that sort of things should I wish to (after all, did I not get an A in Maths O'level back in 1652?) but it's just beneath me.

And then I pass on, very quickly, to the readable bits.

Anyone want maths tutoring?

Maths is a very difficult subject - and well done to your ds hunkermunker.

MRSB!!

i can't believe someone found use for trigonometry. Bet you spend weekends doing quadratic equations too.,

sorry got bored after first line. it didn't flow like english words should so i thoguht fuck it.

Yeah I with Custy, I couldn't / wouldn't / didn't read past the first line.

Omg Thomcat that's exactly what used to happen to me!

My dad would try to 'help' me with my maths (from the way he was taught in the 1940's). I dreaded it and he always ended up shouting at me too. I used to get so upset and miserable about it all and maths teachers were always the strange ones whom I couldn't understand.

I loved English, history, geography but never maths

My mind wandered after about the second line. I read somewhere that its because we are not used to reading words like them so its like a foriegn language or something, and your brian has to work harder to understand it... whatever! Im ok at maths but not written maths if that makes sence.

Awe fuck I meant to say Brain - see what it did to me!!

I try to help dd1 with her maths homework by making eg patterns with numbers
eg 2 + 2 = 4
3 + 3 = 6
4 + 4 = 8
5 + 5 = 10
she told me "you're better at helping than daddy"

i also used to love stuff like the 9 times table being the same numbers back to front..

09
18
27
36
45
54
63
72
81
90

I just can't read it. I switch off. Like spreadsheets. If I force myself to read it/look at the numbers, I understand it, but why would I want to?

I was apparently good at maths at school , so much so that my O-level maths teacher really wanted me to do A-level. But I always felt crap and felt I didn't understand.

My brother, his wife and both his teenage daughters are all maths whizzes and it has passed by this branch of the family.

"Hello birds. Hello sky"

Here you go, TSAP.

Thanks my head is now apinning on two threads!