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Are your Math skills...
Better than average 59%  59%  [ 79 ]
Average 10%  10%  [ 14 ]
Below average 16%  16%  [ 22 ]
I hate math / It's boring 15%  15%  [ 20 ]
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23 Apr 2010, 2:00 am

After high school, my math skills took off like a rocket. Turns out I am well adept at abstract reasoning. So much so I took lower division, upper division as well as Grad level classes. From Complex Analysis to Differential Geometry, from Linear Algebra to Algebraic Topology. I would not say i am a wiz by comparison to other mathl33ts. In the types of maths I studied logic ruled all, it was totally enveloping to me. Morning became night as the hours passed by with little more then a food break to distract me.


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23 Apr 2010, 3:12 am

Below average :(



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23 Apr 2010, 3:14 am

I'm horrible at math. I used to be good at it until eighth grade. Now I've lost a lot of my math skills.

Ironically, my mom's a CPA so you'd think I'd be good at math... Oh well, at least I'm really good at language arts.



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23 Apr 2010, 6:23 am

I've always been extremely good at math (probably because of my obsession with numbers and stats). I was in advanced math classes for as long as they were offered in my school, and I took Calculus in my first semester of college. It's always been something I've done really well in; that, and science.



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23 Apr 2010, 8:11 am

MathGirl wrote:
... I can manipulate them well given that I've done enough practice. ...The problem for me is bringing myself to do the homework and the studying after school. If I do all my work and study as much as I need to, I excel in math.

This sounds like a parent explaining to a child why they might be doing bad at math.
"Practise makes perfect!! !"
"Studying and do your homework and you'll be fine!" :lol:



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23 Apr 2010, 9:12 am

MathGirl wrote:
As with everything, it takes me enormous amounts of time to process new concepts. Once I do absorb them, though, I can manipulate them well given that I've done enough practice. I'm not so good with problems that I've never seen before; I might not get the solution right away. Overall, though, I tend to do very well in math because it's all based on logical reasoning. The problem for me is bringing myself to do the homework and the studying after school. If I do all my work and study as much as I need to, I excel in math.
I read somewhere that people with Asperger syndrome (other forms of autism too, perhaps) tend to have better fluid intelligence.
But as with most generalizations, this appears not to be true for everyone.



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23 Apr 2010, 9:28 am

I consider mathematics and piloting aircraft the most exciting things one can do with his/her clothes on.

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23 Apr 2010, 9:29 am

UberSneakyPanda wrote:
After high school, my math skills took off like a rocket. Turns out I am well adept at abstract reasoning. So much so I took lower division, upper division as well as Grad level classes. From Complex Analysis to Differential Geometry, from Linear Algebra to Algebraic Topology. I would not say i am a wiz by comparison to other mathl33ts. In the types of maths I studied logic ruled all, it was totally enveloping to me. Morning became night as the hours passed by with little more then a food break to distract me.


Aha! A kindred spirit!

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23 Apr 2010, 12:02 pm

Arithmetic calculation is merely an aspect of mathematics.

Mathematics is beautiful, and I am a natural geometer.



The important thing is to stop thinking of numbers as merely abstract symbols, but to begin investigating the structures relating them to each other, and to everything else.


Incidentally, I'm another of those: "holy crap, why is the sun coming up, I was just checking a couple of morphisms on affine spaces on Wikipedia before I went to bed... it can't be 6 am, can it?" type of people.



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23 Apr 2010, 12:15 pm

very good at it. well, very good at complex math (probability theory,
vector calculus).

mental calculation, I am maybe slightly above average.



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23 Apr 2010, 2:20 pm

I'm suprised that so many peoples say they good in math. Similar thread on WP so far had rather hint that most aspies are bad in math.


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23 Apr 2010, 2:54 pm

Tollorin wrote:
I'm suprised that so many peoples say they good in math. Similar thread on WP so far had rather hint that most aspies are bad in math.
I have never had a failing grade for mathematics.
Someone in my class has NLD, but he got a higher grade than me.
But he said he liked this chapter because it was chance, which he finds simple.
All mathematics are useful to me.



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23 Apr 2010, 4:29 pm

ProfessorAspie wrote:
very good at it. well, very good at complex math (probability theory,
vector calculus).

mental calculation, I am maybe slightly above average.


Mental calculation is not mathematics. Proving theorems and solving problems are mathematics.

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23 Apr 2010, 6:36 pm

I'm good at math, other than this past February 16, when I got 10% on a calculus test...



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23 Apr 2010, 7:39 pm

I wish I was better the Dysleixa really makes it hard. But on the bright side when it comes to reading and learning about history I love it. I also really like to write. I'm not the best at it but still I look at those as a plus. I think we all have something we are strong at and something we are weak at. It's out makes us not all the same even though we all may have ADHD, Aspergers, or whatever.



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23 Apr 2010, 9:47 pm

ruveyn wrote:
ProfessorAspie wrote:
very good at it. well, very good at complex math (probability theory,
vector calculus).

mental calculation, I am maybe slightly above average.


Mental calculation is not mathematics. Proving theorems and solving problems are mathematics.

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Well, to be fair, Peano arithmetic is something which certain mathematical structures can model, but not all, nor is arithmetic the only thing that can be done with mathematics.