Re: [Mid] OT - This is SO weird!!

ALL RIGHT!!! I AM NOT CRAZY!!!!! It IS possible to have a just math learning
problem! I KNEW that had to be it! I have been in the same situation all
of my life-I can read numbers and everything I just can't do much else with
them-that's why there are calculators in my opinion-I also can repeat them
back in order to a certain point-for me that is just memorization. I have
not completed my math requirement for college because I just can't learn
algebra in a lecture environment. I tried. I went to every class, took
notes, talked to the teacher, went to the help sessions-I even went to the
head of the math department. I just went and took a test last week that I
think will prove my theory and then maybe someone will finally be willing to
help me out...
I want my degree, I can do everything else that is required of me-I can get
mostly As in everything else, I just can not learn math the way they are
trying to teach it to me. I would be really upset if because of one stupid
requirement I didn't get a degree. Besides I am an early childhood
major-when will I actually need algebra? (anyone out there who's in this
field want to answer?) Sorry frustrating situation.
Siobhan

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>From: "Robin D. Kullick" <asackville@juno.com>
>To: sca-middle@midrealm.org
>Subject: Re: [Mid] OT - This is SO weird!!
>Date: Mon, Dec 20, 1999, 5:05 PM
>

>>>I scrupulously avoided math in college<<
>
> Ok, how'd you manage that one? I tried, but I kept getting stuck with
> having to take a math requirement. I took a 100 level math class. I
> failed it. More than once. Of course this was just about the same time
> that I discovered that I had discalculia, which is like being dyslexic,
> but only with numbers. Made loads of sense to me. No wonder I couldn't
> (and still can't) repeat a string of three numbers back to someone, in
> the order that they were given to me, even if I have it written down.
> Sewing is easy. That's just shapes. Just fitting shapes together is like
> making a jigsaw puzzle. (remember, I'm the looney in the Elizabethan) And
> cooking....well, that's why calculators were invented....and assistants
> to double-check your sums. I just wish the teachers would have caught it
> back in grade school, when something significant could have been done
> about it. Instead, I spent all of grade school and all of high school
> hating math and feeling quite stupid, even though I was making good
> grades everywhere else. I seriously envy those who find math easy and
> fun. And, so, for me there are "everyday math tasks" that I scrupiously
> avoid, or have learned to do on instinct. For example: I have had to
> learn to use Roman numerals to tell time because those are letters and
> not numbers. A regular clock face sometimes doesn't make complete sense
> to me. This is also why I bless the day they invented digital watches.
> And even those I need to read slowly and carefully. So, for me...math
> bad. Pooey.
>
> In Vivo Servates,
> Fionnuala
>
> Oh, there's no way I'm going to be able to make it to Lansing's 12th
> Nite. We have our 12th the following week and it's "crunch time". I would
> have loved to see Midair try to teach me to use an abacus! I wonder which
> one of us would scream first. :-)
>
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Received on Mon Dec 20 19:00:50 1999