anyone else not interested in science or math?

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i love science... which im in school for now

and while i can do some hard math with a little bit of elbow grease (and definitely a calculator... don't do math w/o it lol)... the only math that has ever interested me is physics in general and biometry--ie-- statistics applied to experimental design.

i'm actually applying right now for a bio-statistics job... we'll have to see if my math grades were good enough /cringe lol

but i'm not a total nerd! i just don't have much time not to be one.... lol

Well, I don't like half of the two. Math is my weakest subject. I've never officially been diagnosed with Nonverbal Learning Disorder, but I know I have it, and it greatly affects my math skills. Anything even remotely dealing with visual-spatial abilities causes me to become confused. I am very good at algebra, but that's straight-forward. Always been horrible at geometry. Horrible at trig. Got a "D" in calculus. Must I go on? But science is another story. I have always had a passion for science. I love all science except physics- but physics is just an extension of math, essentially. Other than physics, you don't need math to be good at science, which is why I'm good at science.
-OddDuckNash99-

Master of all forms of math and science.

I can grind out answers complex math problems with great ease and love all sciences. I've even gone so far as memorizing the ENTIRE periodic table.

I can rattle off ANY elements melting and freezing points and it's atomic weight.

Well, I guess there are different levels of being interested in something. I am interested in science and math enough to read about new stuff going on (like alternative energy solutions) which requires a moderate amount of knowledge of the subject to understand and apply it to what I am really interested in: economics. Do I spend my time reading about physics and calculus? No, but if I need to understand what someone means when they say "We see that B /A, which is zero for A = 1, that is, for the hydrogen nucleus, grows rapidly with A, reaches a broad maximum of 8.7 MeV about A = 56 and then decreases slightly," then I am really interested in math and whatever science is being discussed.

So I guess I am not interested in the material enough to sit through hours of lecture on science and math I don't care about in order to get a degree in math/science, but at the same time, I am also capable of a very narrow, intense interest in math/science when I come across a connection between it and economics. (And economics is connected to everything, I've decided.)

And I guess it also depends on the science, too. I've always been a fan of physics over chemistry, unless I get to blow something up (in which case I love chemistry.) But physics has always been easier for me to understand conceptually rather than mathematically, since you can see something and understand generally how it works, and then use math to prove that it works. Biology is boring; I've never been interested in biology. Ever. (Well, okay, I was interested in human biology for a very short period as a freshman, but a human physiology course cured me of that in a hurry.)

And economics is a lot like physics; you can understand the concepts just by observation of markets and human behavior, and then you can use math to define patterns, manipulate money supplies, etc. It's all very interesting. (But unlike physics, you can't really use math to determine if something will work or not because human behavior is unquanitifiable.) But I digress.

So I guess I would say yes, I am interested in math and science, while specifying that I am neither a mathematician nor scientist--nor do I desire to become one.

Mathematics bores me, bad maths teachers in high school. But I can do it if I push myself. Physics is hard, but I can understand it. Biology is easy, and I may do Chemistry as well next year.

When I was a little kid, the atomic table only went up to 99 as I recall. Today, it apparantly goes to 110! Do you know ALL of them? So what IS the boiling and freezing point of UUN? How did they find it?

Steve

Ununillium. I don't know, but that's as far as the periodic table in my bedroom goes. They keep discovering new superheavy elements in particle colliders and accelerators.

I used to think that I was bad at math and science, but it turns out that I am actually very good at them, just not all at once.
In school, one would need to change subjects every 50 minutes; I would become so confused and unorganized that I just gave up.
The teachers called me 'capable, but inattentive'.
I only made it to grade 9.
Then I decided to go to community college to upgrade. It was there that I had an unbelievable teacher who allowed me to do 1 subject at a time. Not only did I finish grade 10 math, but by the end of 6 months I had completed my grade 12 and was onto college calculus.
Then I did the same with English, science and social studies...managed to ace them all.
The right people in your life can mean a world of difference!

I've always been terrible at math (dyscalculia ahoy!) but I liked science. I was good at science too, up until science started requiring advanced math. So basically I rocked at Biology and failed Chemistry. I bounce back and forth when it comes to Physics, because some parts of Physics requires math but other parts don't.

I definitely fit into the "geek" stereotype though, mainly due to the fact that I'm into computers.

that goes against the grain, but the responses have been heterogeneous. some aren't good at either. more trouble with math and physics than i thought. i probably shouldn't have have twinned skills in science and math together in my question(since both don't have to go together) and the responses have shown that we shouldn't typecast aspie skills/interests.

111. Roentgenium was just named last year. I enjoy the "unnamed" elements' names better, though. Like 104- "unnilquadium" is a far cooler name than "rutherfordium." And "unnilhexium" is cooler than "seaborgium."
-OddDuckNash4348-

In school I was very interested in science and math,I used to stay after school to talk to my teachers about those subject almost everyday.I was lucky because my math teacher was a total nerd and was happy to talk with me about geometry for however long I wanted to.My science teacher was completely the opposite and one time he told me to "get a life" and "science isn't everything".

I'd say that I like math and science to a mild extent. I like the subjects enough to major in engineering. I definitely am not any form of math/science nerd though and would prefer not to spend my free time studying these subjects unless it leads to some potential future gain.

I like science up to the point where it starts involving math.

Same here! I've always been hopeless at math. It didn't help that it was my mother who taught it to me - she was nervous and irritable back then and lost her patience whenever I spent several minutes solving a simple problem (that is, all the time), so the math lessons ended in shouting and tears nearly every day. I loathed them. I was never interested in math, either.

Same goes for physics and chemistry. Chemistry was *somewhat* better, I even got interested in it for a bit. When we were supposed to make experiments, I made whatever ones I could make at home, but that was mostly for the sake of watching the various reactions happening. Not the formulas and other dry things like that.

Now biology, that's totally different.