How good at math? How about average?

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I'm so glad that I have a copy of Mathematica (got it as a gift while I was in 7th grade because I knew someone who had a copy who didn't need it so he transferred the license to me )

But yeah, I'm definitely like you. I'm also really weak at diffeqs unfortunately.

I picked above average, because math comes fairly easy to me but then Im not gifted or anything. When it comes to really upper level math: Calculus and above I start to have trouble.

Interesting, the poll has abilities all across the board. Thats what I suspect, aspies arent necessarily good or bad in math.

I'm very good at raw maths. I'm not so good when asked to apply that to a graph, and I switch off easily which means that moving from step to step takes me a long time.

I have the best quantitative reasoning my school has ever recorded, I've represented my country at the Maths Challenge and I find mental maths (which forces you to focus) a breeze.

I'm good at math if I want to be. And I only want to be if I need it for programming.

Learning "pure" math without any application causes me to lose any motivation to learn it. I will often end up scraping through my university math courses with the bare minimum amount of study.

I destroyed IB Math HL(7/7).

I was good at maths in secondary(high) school up until I was around 12 when I was so far ahead of the class that I was bored, lost interest and my ability for it went out of the window. My maths is still really basic and I get very agitated by it, it's like my brain just puts up a wall with maths and I can't think properly.

When I was little I would always confuse 30 and 80, so when counting to 100 I would go "78, 79...uhm... 30.." then think, wait haven't I done 30?!, get so muddled and have to start again. I discovered recently that my daughter has the same problem, she has to be reminded that it goes 28,29,30 and then when she gets to 79 the next number is 80. Like I did she seems to draw a complete blank when it comes to those two numbers.

I'll eat integrals for breakfast someday..

I got a 1 (A+) for O grade arithmetic (exam at age 14 in Scotland) and a 2 (A-/B+) for O Grade maths. But, I only got a C for Higher (the following year). I resat it and got a B, the following year (a whole year later and I only managed to improve that much). I said I was above average, as most people didn't get a 1 or 2 for O Grade and I don't think that many went on to get Higher Maths, so even though the grade wasn't great, it was better than most.

This.

It took a lot of extra classes just to get a C in maths, though luckily I never have to take it again and have already forgot all the bulls**t I learned from it. Oh well, good thing every single gadget these days has a calculator built into it and algebra is utterly useless in real life

In grades 7-11 .... I never got below a 96% and that was from missing work. switched schools in 12th and didn't transfer well.in grades 9 and up I took advanced class'. They refused to print my actual average several times(tests had extra credit/ trick questions) at one point I had a 107%

I've used math and trig on a daily basis for the last 25+ yrs.

Differential equations and a little bit of integrals is the farthest I ever got, after that depression put me out of schooling. I remenber how much the algebraic were ridiculousy long, and thus difficult... I would like to know more advanced math, and see if I can do it, but my lazyness and lack of discipline prevent me from going farther.
It seem a lot of aspies have difficulty in basic math while be goood for the more advanced stuff.

My Algebra teacher always says "HOW could you possibly be so horrible at math, you're so intelligent" Yeah, I'M intelligent????? Since when??? I've always sucked at math my whole life, it just got even worse when I had to do ALGEBRA (my arch-enemy!) Algebra is NOT math, it's just a way for people to look smarter than they really are so they made up some nonsense and then decided to say it was math.

I'm neurotypical and I'm good at maths, about above average I should think.

See, whos to say neurotypicals are no good at maths?

I also dropped out of high school in 10th grade due to depression and trigonometry was as far as I got. I didn't care for it. However, I got a GED and took calculus and physics at the community college which I enjoyed. I learned real analysis and complex analysis on my own and saw a mentor once a week for help.

Now I just buy text books off the internet once in a while and read for fun. Motivation is a problem without a mentor though. It's not as easy to just pick up a math book and read like a novel or magazine article. It takes a lot of caffeine to overcome the initial laziness but once I'm hooked I'll be up late at night thinking about math. Then the problem is disciplining myself to stop thinking so hard all the time so I can do other necessary things, like eating and sleeping.

Algebra is actually the first real math you do, it more math than arithmetic is. Algebra is also very important, its probably the purest math that most people use on a regular basis. Everything uses at least basic Algebra, and its a very important skill.

The very first time that I ever struggled with arithmetic/maths was when we were introduced to algebra for the first time. I remember my Dad very patiently explaining it to me, for a couple of hours, whilst I was in tears and thinking, 'What's wrong with me? Why can't I get this?' I couldn't understand what the letters were all about. Then it suddenly clicked and I've never looked back. My understanding of algebra sits very happily alongside my very competent understanding of arithmetic, unlike my confusion with trigonometry, calculus, etc.