I'm so forgetful with maths

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Well I am in year 11 at school (UK) and I am finding that, with maths, you focus on one sort of rule or equation or whatever in a lesson, and I can perfect the rule/equation for the rest of the lesson, but as soon as I have to learn something else the following day, the new thing will shove what I learned before 'right outta my brain', making me forget completely what to do when, say, a maths test comes along. There was even a time when I got 0% on a test, even though I tried some of the questions. I was wondering if anyone else is like this, be it with maths or any other subject.

I get this a lot. It's probably the reason why I failed my Algebra exam.


4 times.

I have this with Calc. I learned it so many times it's crazy. By the time a test comes around, I would have to re-derive the whole of calculus during the test. This worked the same with my logic class too. Really sad, but some things just won't stick.

why do you call is maths instead of math?

Jutty: I call it maths because thats basically what everybody I know calls it. And it's only one 's' anyway.

Same here. Today I had a math exam, and yesterday I appeared to know not one thing, though every lesson it seemed so easy. Just as all math exams, I start to learn one day before the exam, to forget it the moment the exam's finished

i never really understood why they teach the maths GCSE the way they do because it is punching numbers into equations you don't understand, i am currently doing my A-2 and i only have 3 different types of questions with many methods
personally i never remember the equation just how it is derived but you will need to learn a lot of A-level criteria to derive GCSE maths equations/rules. i do think that you will do well in A-level because there is so much less to remember.
My advise is that you print a sheet of all the equations read it outside the exam before you enter the room (don't bring it in with you ) and as you open the paper just write them in a blank space in the front of your question or answer booklet or just somewhere where it won't get marked.

we add an "s" in the uk
why do people in the US call it math

Because there are many different axiom systems. 'course, y'all are probably
not dealing with that.

The strange thing is, many US textbooks title the subject as "mathmatics", but then we make it singular in the shortened form. I call it maths anyway because that makes sense to me... even though I'm hopeless at anything much beyond single-digit multiplication.

My Algebra teacher gets on my nerves he gets mad when I show my work and he can't read it!

Not at all. I could ace maths exams without studying, or paying much attention in class at all. I think I slept through half of my sixth year, still got an A :-p

One of my Aha! moments regarding autism was reading "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime". At one point the protagonist solves quadratic equations to help him relax, and I was doing the same thing to help me get to sleep at night!

Spectrum of course. Not everyone is like that. Maths is a very tricky subject to learn as it seems that more than any other subject you need to find the method that works specifically *for you*. Doing it somebody else's way is just about as useful as headbutting a brick wall. Once you do find that moment of enlightenment though you will find that maths is an incredibly worthwhile topic to study.

Just hearing the term "quadratic equation" makes me drowsy.
It's awesome that you have high aptitude in the subject. I always did very well in English, but would trade it for maths in a second. You're allowed to make errors in language, but maths is unforgiving.

I could never figure out why I struggled so mightily with math until two years ago when I was diagnosed with NLD. I can't do algebra to save my life; I failed two math classes and would've failed a third had I not dropped it. Geometry was quite a bit easier for me, though.

As my username may imply, I'm pretty good at English, especially the mechanical parts of it.