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meeemoi
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10 Jul 2011, 3:29 am

Master_Pedant wrote:
Are there any practical ways to improve one's number sense, especially if one

  • Has a poor spatial working memory.
  • Has stronger verbal than performance intelligence.


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stimulants have not helped with this issue then again i don't think i felt any effect from them like caffeine doesn't effect me or sugar. though it may be that i don't notice the changes for some reason as i don't think i have felt anything from any medication including Tylenol.

as for your number sense it may be dyscalculia... if i do have it then i would have to day that it shoudl not be mistaken for poor math skills in general . it would be specific to only specific things that dont really matter.
if you have issues knowing how long you have been in line weather it be 10 mins or an hour. or you have trouble with estimating distance or you have no idea what you were doing in 2009 then you may want to look in to it. i don't think there's a cure its a learning disability like most i believe they come with a gift of some sorts for me its actaully my gift of understanding math



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10 Aug 2011, 5:26 pm

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Programming. Complex tasks require to to be able to recall the entire program of the top of your head, and to have a strong spatial sense of how you are going to organise and manipulate your data. Some tasks, like composing matrices upon each other, modular arithmetic on matrices, and storing your data in unusual matrices (I like matrices :P) need strong spatial visualisation. I never enjoyed puzzles, because they don't do anything. I find it more fun to use maths to approach real problems, which makes it easier to get the "intuition" than using math in a vacuum.

All this coming from someone with a higher verbal than performance intelligence, and subaverage spatial working memory (improving, though).

Who in their right mind doesnt love Matrices?!?!?! Seriously xD


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12 Aug 2011, 9:32 pm

Play tetris (spatial)

Practice problems at khanacademy.org (numerical)



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14 Aug 2011, 4:08 am

ryan93 wrote:
Programming. Complex tasks require to to be able to recall the entire program of the top of your head, and to have a strong spatial sense of how you are going to organise and manipulate your data. Some tasks, like composing matrices upon each other, modular arithmetic on matrices, and storing your data in unusual matrices (I like matrices :P) need strong spatial visualisation. I never enjoyed puzzles, because they don't do anything. I find it more fun to use maths to approach real problems, which makes it easier to get the "intuition" than using math in a vacuum.

All this coming from someone with a higher verbal than performance intelligence, and subaverage spatial working memory (improving, though).

That is it.