Does anyone else struggle with maths?

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Hello. Does anyone else here completely suck at maths too? Most people i know assume that I must be great at maths, probably because it's an aspie stereotype. But it's far from the truth. I have never understood numbers or the questions at all and failed maths at school though i was in the easiest group. I even struggle with simple maths and pretty much every kind of maths I have ever done in school.
Im embarrassed to admit that I still have to use my fingers to work out simple calculations and even then I struggle. I used to have meltdowns in school before going into a maths lesson and during the lesson as I just couldn't do it, even when I had a teaching assistant with me. No matter how many times people tried to help and explain things to me I still didn't understand, leading to everyone thinking I'm dumb.

I am the same. I think when I was 8, my school only taught me up to the 5th times table. All the other kids completed their times tables, but I got stuck behind, really really struggling with 6th times table. They never had enough time to teach me the rest when I failed to catch up and so no one else bothered to teach me. I couldn't tell the time on analogue clocks until I was 12/13 and even now i still sometimes struggle because I will get numbers muddled up. And don't even get me started on 24hr clocks!!

As long as I have a calculator, a pencil and several pieces of paper, 30 minutes to figure it out, and the equation is no more complex than a 5th grade level, I'm golden.

Yes. I’m Terrible. I struggle with basic maths. Even rudimentary sums I have to really think about them. An example 7 + 5 it would take me several seconds to work it out. Only times tables I know are 2s,5s,10s the really simple ones. I do art and started gridding canvases. It took me 6 days to eventually get it right. The next time took less and less. Now I can grid a canvas in a couple of hours. I see numbers and measurements that aren’t correct. I’ve resigned to the fact Il never be good at maths or understand numbers at all.

I was slow at learning fractions and forgot how to do them and I never learned algebra and could never do geometry because I cannot turn images in my head or fold shapes to see a pattern without doing it psychically. I never had a problem with learning addition or subtraction or decision, or multiplication. My school gave up on math for me when I was in 8th grade because I wasn't learning it. I cannot do big numbers in my head either. Ask me what 18 times 18 is and I would need a pencil and paper or a calculator.

'Maths lesson' instead of 'math class'. I love it when someone else here besides me is non-American.

Anyway, I've always been bad at maths. I'm good at writing and spelling and words, but numbers just throw me. I use my fingers to do simple working out of maths, and I just cannot visualise numbers in my head. It's strange really, because I can visualise words in my head, and remember how about 95% of all English words are spelt, but I just cannot visualise numbers when trying to work a sum out.

I know how to read a bus timetable (as in I know how it works) but I get confused by numbers, they feel all jumbled up and I'm forever working out the 24-hour times (like 1500 means 3.00pm).

I'm pretty good at practical math and arithmetic. Not bad at geometry.

Pretty terrible at theoretical/abstract math, though--including algebra.

I do and all 3 of my children to also.

Everytime someone brings up the idea that being autistic automatically makes someone an expert at math, I want to STRANGLE them. I had undiagnosed dyscalculia and my mother would always tell me I could never be a veterinarian because I supposedly wouldn't be able to cope with all the math requirements in college. Way to motivate your kid. I stopped even trying after I got told that so many times. I was always told I was "lazy" or "unmotivated". But then my mom goes and destroy the one source of motivation I had.

Very rarely was anything ever explained to me in public school. I had very lazy teachers who never bothered to explain anything. They just threw things at the kids and expected them to automatically know how to figure out the questions. I never understood why I had to go to school to "learn" when I wasn't even being taught in the first place. I could have stayed at home and taught myself in peace.

In 4th grade, I was put into my s**t school's poor attempt at special ed; which was nothing more than free daycare. My parents were told I would be receiving help with math but that wasn't the case. I was just given kindergarten and first-grade level worksheets.

I was homeschooled since the fifth grade but still had issues with math because my mom wouldn't let me use a calculator or even count on my fingers. She also refused to incorporate my special interests into the lesson plans because "things didn't work like that in the real world".

I eventually sought out a diagnosis of dyscalculia/mathematics disability on my own and found a tutor. The tutor incorporated my desire to be a vet into the lesson plans and I flourished.

She actually explained what I was supposed to be doing. She just said it was important to know how to use a calculator, not that using one was such a bad thing. Turned out I was actually pretty good at algebra. Not saying I was one of those "Rainman" savants at it. I still needed a calculator. But once I knew what I was supposed to be doing, it wasn't as hard as my mom and the public school made it out to be.

I was a bit slower than my peers at simple arithmetics (basic adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing) but I managed those tasks without too many problems, as well as per cent.
I'm usually slower at executing tasks.

I never got the hang of the rest of the maths we were taught, and I never had a maths teacher who were able to teach me beyond the level I managed to understand at first try.

I shouldn't have passed junior high maths and couldn't pass high school maths.

The maths needed for every day life, I can manage. The advanced stuff I have no chance at.

Maths was my weakest subject in school, I just couldn’t understand many of the concepts. I’ve always been more of an artsy person. I actually failed very frequently in it all throughout school but somehow managed to get a B at GCSE, which was a massive surprise. I can do everyday math okay but even then I struggle to count money/change under pressure.

I'm horrible at math.

Immensely. I still use my fingers for basic addition and subtraction. When people say numbers, I request they write it down or show me the numbers because I cannot interpret numbers orally. I failed college calculus twice and I'm taking it for third (and hopefully final) time.

Since forever, basically.

I can do simple addition, single digit subtraction, multiplication of 9s up to 10 (because of the sequencing of the numbers) and fractions/decimals in the 25 and 4 range (like 4 quarters to a dollar, 25 cents, etc). But it takes me a while, people usually get impatient and just give me the answer.
That's it though. Anything else, multiplication, division, alegbra.. everything else is either "Calculator Required" or "I Have No Way To Understand What This Is". I likely have dyscalculia. I have all the symptoms/signs. As a child my parents spent hundreds and hundreds of dollars on all kinds of programs, sent me to special classes, special teachers. Bupkis. They wasted their money every time, nothing ever worked.

OH. And I can't remember number sequences of any kind unless they have a specific rhythm. Even simple phone numbers like 247 2447 trip me up. I had to write that extra slow and say it several times in my head. I have a light stutter, and I literally stutter in my HEAD as well as out loud when I say numbers that repeat like that, because I'm never sure if I got the sequence correct. Hell, I even turn double digit numbers backwards a lot. Like I'll hear "87" and it'll become "78".
Thank god my Husband's cell number is a really good rhythmic sequence, it's easy to remember.

Bupkis.....cool!

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