How good at math? How about average?

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Addition, subtraction and multiplication, pas problem, but anything else and I seem to have a mental block. The day that I was introduced to algebra was not a good one

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I was quite good at maths didn't have any problems with that subject.

I'm not very good at maths at all. I can do simple addition / subtraction/ multiplication / division in my head but that's about it and it takes me a long time to figure it out. I used to be simply terrible and I was briefly put in a "special class" for maths at school but this only lasted about 3 weeks.

I improved a lot in college but it just cloggs up my brain.

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I suck at math.

I don't know really. Until high school my math teachers were very bad and I always found easy way out on test. Got A's but didn't really now it that well, in fact I just learned by heart certain problems and steps in solving them without understanding the logic behind it.
In high school, things got ugly because teacher there was kinda sadistic and, as I could not understand even basic math things, I failed miserably. I did not want special instructions so I sat down and learned it by myself to get better grades. In one month, my grades improved from F to C and B. So I guess I am not that stupid for math, but nothing special either.
One big problem was that I was unable to organize myself so my numbers got mixed and I got confused.

I had no problems with geometry, if I saw the picture, I knew what to do.

It's not that I'm bad at it, I can do it (medicated) but I won't remember it. I have to use it or I'll just forget. It's the many steps involved working out the answer that makes me grow tired if I don't have at least 10mg of Ritalin, which I can no longer take. I sometimes like to do mental arithmetic in my head when I'm on the low dose though, to help kick the medication off. If I was really good at it I think I'd be more interested in it.

I've always hated math...and spelling. Once it came to algebra everything was way over my head and perhaps if someone would have helped me more I would have understood it...

I was very, very good at math but my grades didn't always reflect that. A lot of the time I was able to solve problems in my head without having to do the work on paper but teachers expected us to "show our work". So if I put down the correct answer without showing them exactly how I got it, they would take points off on my grade even though I got the correct answer.

I found it really tedious and annoying to write down how I got the answer. Sometimes I just "knew" the answer to a problem and didn't have to do any work in my head at all. It was like the answer just came out of nowhere. So to be able to show my work I'd have to reverse engineer the answer back to the problem and sometimes along the way I'd get confused somewhere. So I'd put down the correct answer but the way I showed my work on the problem wouldn't be right so they'd still take points off.

And the biggest problem with showing my work on paper, is I would inevitably copy down some part of the problem wrong. I might reverse a couple of digits here or there, or just plain copy it down wrong in some way that didn't even make sense. In a lot of those cases I would do the "work" of the problem exactly like you were supposed to, but I'd get the wrong answer because of some stupid error I made copying the problem down.

So I guess in a way I was too good at math.

I'm a touch above average in math aptitude. My grades didn't always reflect this because I couldn't be bothered to do the homework unless it was interesting. Geometry was interesting. I hate graphing with a passion. I do well in accounting, especially what I'd call forensic accounting.

My real strong point is in language. I think I was born with a dictionary in my head. Writing used to be easy. I wish I could still say that.

Discrete Structures was the most challenging math course i ever took. The only consolation was that the failure rate for the course was very high.


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