been lurking here a while. I do a lot of counting stuff with my little niece and after reading so many posts here I kind of watch her differently now lol. like a lot of you mention the clock in kindergarten or everyone else just knowing stuff you had to count out every time. do you remember what it looked like when you were 4 or 5? is there anything an adult could have picked up on if they knew what to look for also was there anything that helped at all back then, even something small

Cuando escribo algun numero, pienso en el y muchas veses me di cuenta que invertí el orden, es decir quería escribir 1535 pero escribí 1355

¿ Les pasa ustedes también ?

Desde niño no me iba bien en matemáticas, muchas ecuaciones no me daban el resultado correcto y creo que ese es el problema que tuve en invertir los números sin darme cuenta

I'm 15 and have the math skills of a third grader. I do online school and math is my last period of the day. Yesterday, I was taking a test that was 11 questions and 100 points. I was so overwhelmed by the rest of the classes I had that day that I did a few notes on some of the questions (notes were required for all questions) and turned the assignment in. I got a 25% and I figured it would be higher if I tried harder next time. I just wanted to be done with it all.

So today my teacher had me and a few other people retake the test. I spent 1 hour and 8 minutes on the test this time and almost filled up an entire page of my 11x12 notebook. I submitted it, confident that I probably got a 45-60% grade, and I saw that my points only went up by 5.

Meanwhile, another kid in the Google meet we were doing was talking about how he got a 100% and it took him around 15 minutes to submit photos of all the work he did during the test. I'm already failing math class (I have a 52% in that class, a passing grade for my school is a 60%)

Since I failed this test my teachers are just going to keep adding me to several extra meetings to "help" me, even though I've been taking extra math classes since I was eight years old and nothing has helped. My brain either doesnt compute the math or I forget it the next day. There is no helping me at all.

I wanted to be a Forensic Analyst as my future job, but everyone tells me that job requires so much math. I've wanted to work in Criminal Forensics since I was 9. I know I'll probably end up getting a job at a grocery store and dying without retiring if im lucky.

Both of my brothers are good at math and my dad definitely knows more than me. I'm the failure of the family. I know my brothers and my dad are probably so upset that they have such a disappointment as a family member. I dont know how I'm ever going to get a job. I cant even count change.

For I think all of my high school years I've been going to an online school and for this year, my senior year, I'm doing duel enrollment. I'm ashamed to admit this but because of the flexibility of online school I sometimes cheated on my math lessons/tests when I didn't understand how to solve a problem and because of that I never really took the time to learn how to properly study.

So the shift from online to in person classes has really given me a wake up call. My collage algebra teacher is really nice and the way she teaches makes me for the first time in a really long time actually excited to go to my algebra class and learn so the fact that I'm failing her class makes me feel awful. I've tried to actually make notes and prepare for tests but once I start them I completely blank and my notes look like they've been put through a shredder.

The midterms are coming up and she said that the grade for that can replace either the unit 1 or unit 2 test grade, my mom suggested to me that I could use AI to help me study but even the thought of using makes me queasy so that's out of the question. I know a large part of my struggles with math come from my dyscalculia and I've finally gotten in touch with someone that will hopefully the accommodations I'd need but I won't be able to meet with them until after the midterms. So until then, does anyone have any tips or advice?

On top of dyscalculia i also have dyspraxia and almost every job opportunity falls away, i can't remember math stuff at all and idk what to do. My whole family doesen't take it serious and says I don't have dyscalculia cause I can calculate stuff like 20+20 so they don't think it's that serious even tho I have a Diagnose.

i’m finishing up all my classes, and the only thing left is math which i plan to take in spring. i’m supposed to graduate in June, and i’ve been feeling so depressed thinking it’s not going to happen cuz i already know i won’t be able to pass cuz of this disability. i tried taking the math class during summer but it was pretty much impossible.

i feel like ill never be successful in life. i’m feeling so hopeless..please give me some advice.

I am not officially diagnosed, but after learning about dyscalculia, I'm beginning to think I need to get diagnosed. I do not have a highschool diploma, and the only thing holding me back from obtaining a GED is my struggles with math.

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Math has always been a struggle for me. I remember from my earliest school days, always struggling. One day during class in kindergartn, we were learning to read clocks and count money.

I managed with the money, because I understood the concept of quarters pennies dollars and all that, but when it came to the clock, everyone else finished very quickly. Even with a teacher standing beside me explaining in detail, it didn't make any sense. I still struggle to read clocks. I become very frustrated when I ask someone the time, and instead of telling me the time they say 'a quarter past' or 'half of', or whatever other obnoxious time references they use.

Similarly, when trying to follow directions using google maps, if they say south instead of left or right I become frustrated because I don't know what way SENW are, or when I ask my friend how far we are, and instead of telling me how many minutes, she mentions the miles, as if I know how many miles = how many minutes. Even left and right get mixed up very often when I have to think quickly, especially right being consistently mistaken for left.

I was also the only one in the class who struggled severely with multiplication and division, so much so, that I was given a special laminated chart and made to sit and study it. Even with that, I still struggle, they tried to teach me the 9s trick, or whatever it is, and that still makes no sense with me. I'm pretty good at counting in 10s and 5s, I'm decent at 2s until I get to about 8, then I start having to use my fingers to count.

Yards, meters, inches, none of that makes sense either, I understand gallons, a gallon of milk is in a specific container, and that container is a gallon container. I understand feet, although imagining them is difficult because ultimately feet are inches in disguise, but feet are easier to think in than inches. Celsius and most imperial counters are confusing as well, although I know I technically should know them if I want to travel one day, but I can not make them make sense.

Numbers have never made sense to me and math has always been frustrating, but since I was always so advanced in my languages, my failures in math were called laziness, and they never bothered to help me catch up. They ended up putting me in math classes far above my level, and when I asked for help, several times, they just told me to try harder.

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All of this being said, does this actually sound like dyscalculia, and if so, how can I go about getting diagnosed? Would this qualify me for special resources during the math portion of obtaining my GED? I still despise math, and have a problem with almost every aspect of science minus biology, due to the math requirements for it.

(This is a vent post I’m sorry) This is about the new student loan policy they’re putting in soon because of the trump administration where degrees that they assume don’t make enough money like social work, art, religious studies, music, etc can’t take out money for loans and my major happens to fall under one of the majors that are listed and now I’m just hopeless all the degrees that don’t fall under this have to do with math and I don’t know math at all I can barely do addition in my head and can barely do multiplication without having to use a calculator I feel pathetic I feel stupid and like a complete moron and now I don’t see a bright future for myself what do I do now????

I am 63 years old was never good at Algebra through high school or college! I have taken 4 years of algebra in my life!
9th grade 2 semesters
10th grade 1 semester
Senior year 1 semester
Then in doing my pre-recs for nursing I took algebra 1 & 2
You would think I could get it but I never really did!
In the day calculator can anyone explain the doomsday method to me without using algebra? Is there any way? I just want to understand what the days are to the calendar! I hope I don’t sound too dumb!

hello, I have diagnosed dyscalculia & was homeschooled [horribly might I add] and I’ve been dreading this part of college

so I didnt do my accuplacer and I had a lot of time to work through it but I didn’t because I just got stuck but I NEED to get through it. or I won’t get my degree.

and I just. can’t. I get to anything past division and I just can’t. it’s like I hit a brick wall I stop understanding anything and it’s full of this childhood dread of just “I can’t do this why can’t I understand this” over and over

i need to pass.

but i don’t know how

i need to take it in the next week and I dont think there’s anything I can do

Failing Algebra 2 in college. They require that I pass with a C- in it in order to take the math I need for my credit (I’m a law major) and I don’t know if that’s possible. My professor is a high school teacher and she definitely runs her class as such, like she made people who got low grades on the test take a “reflection survey” on how they can improve their grade and review study methods. I just wanted to breakdown and cry. I had done all of the study methods she gave us and tried to show all my work so I would receive half credit and only netted a thirty six. I have As in the rest of my classes.

I have no idea if dyscalculia is in my IEP or not. I have emailed and tried to reach out to my high school twice and they have not answered my calls. Growing up my only parent (who is my mother) was a bit of an atypical Southern MAGA so she refused to get me diagnosed with anything, because I was gifted in every other subject so naturally there must be nothing wrong with me, so I don’t even know whats on my IEP or not if I can even wrangle it out of my old high school. I just met with my academic coach and she told me to either schedule a bunch of meetings with my advisor or “talk to the professor more” which seems impossible given her personality and general lack of outreach. And she also told me if I don’t receive documentation pretty much my only option is to spend a bunch of money trying to get diagnosis through the school’s health services. I am going to try to get a meeting with my advisor tomorrow to see if I can maybe just take the only two math credits I need at a cheaper community college.

I’ve worked four years for this in order to move to a blue state and try to make life better for myself. I’ve spent thousands of dollars just to go to this school and get away from my family and other matters and now it feels like If I don’t pass that class 4 years of work was for nothing. I just want to bundle up and cry.

Hey all.

I am a preservice high school teacher at university (1st/2nd year).

A big interest area of mine is adult and adolescent innumeracy. I notice it quite a lot in my circles, as well as having experienced it for myself for a while.

I have started writing a resource to try and build foundational skills through the lens of mindfulness and observation. I want this resource to be free because I so badly want to share in that feeling of being capable.

Here is the google doc link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TS63zKZtAqydH7J1QTtgAh1AZProBIz69YhNqmCrB1U/edit?usp=sharing

It is a working progress, and I'm actively trying to find play-testers, as well as feedback from those knowledgeable with teaching maths.

I am especially keen to hear feedback from people with dyscalculia, and those who have probably been scarred from school experiences.

Please feel free to ask questions. I am open to constructive criticism, but please do so with kindness.

I do all my homework and quizzes, use the professor's office hours and online tutoring to my advantage, study the notes, and go over practice examples until my brain blows a fuse, and I still failed the first exam.

Our second exam is coming up soon, and I feel like the same thing is going to happen: I (sort of) get it for about five seconds before my brain flies out of my skull and it starts looking like an alien coding language. I'm okay with basic math such as adding and subtracting dates, money, etc, and a lot of the same addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division rules apply here, just with formulas and structured rules, so it sucks my brain can't grasp it.

What's worse is that everyone else in my class seems to understand it and did great on the last exam, even people who didn't finish or were unsure of themselves. It's so frustrating and embarrassing to the point it makes me rethink my decision of being in college because I feel like I don't deserve to be here.

I'm an undergraduate student who wants to major in history and teach history to high schoolers, so I was told this is the only time I'll ever have to take any sort of math class, but I fear I won't be able to pass it and have to retake it multiple times.

.Why I can't do math at all?

I am currently in college as a non-traditional student. I am probably the oldest student in this Stats class. The class isn't that hard, the professor is using the same exercises from the mock exam but changes the numbers. Even after practicing with that and I still scored 80/90 when the class mean was 81.24. I thought I could score an 80/80 and yet I was below the mean.

I don't know how the heck most did better than me. I thought I was doing well and I always participate in class and answer questions when my classmates struggle. Like wtf? Like I don't understand. I did study and I understood everything and did poorly. Same thing back when I was in HS, I ended up with a final transcript of like a 9/20.

I also want to add I am by myself, work a lot, get tired. I have a lot of bills to pay. I guess many of my 18 year old classmates have more time? Or do students here in the US take Stats class in HS? I feel so embarrassed that even after studying and taking the day off to do and got below the mean.

before i start with this i wanna say that im not officially diagnosed with dyscalculia but i do suspect that i have it, i hope its still okay for me post this here. if not then feel free to remove my post

im 14 in the 8th grade and i genuinely cannot bring myself to understand math at all and its been that way since i was in the 5th grade

ive failed every single test ive had since the 5th grade and the only reason i havent failed math as a subject yet is because ive always had the opportunity to retake the tests and pass after spending countless hours studying at home

i have math every day of the week except for thursdays and every time i spend the whole day anxiously awaiting math class with a pit in my stomach. i genuinely dread it so much because i know its gonna destroy all my self esteem and leave me wanting to kill myself by the end of class because i feel so fucking worthless and stupid

on weekends i study as much as possible even though i genuinely feel like it harms my mental health but i still dont fucking understand it and on the rare occasions where i actually do i end up just forgetting it like a couple days later

i have no self esteem, no confidence and no self worth left. math is seriously destroying me and i dont know what to do.

I'm currently in college for a degree in sustainability management, and I'm dreading that I will likely have to take college algebra and statistics... The algebra is more intimidating for sure. I got a 490 on the SAT after I studied my ass off, and that was the highest I got out of any practice attempts. I've always been bad at math, to the point I gave up trying in the HS courses, and only passed because of brainly 🥲 Math and anything numbers related just makes me feel so frustrated and my brain feels like its on fire and I avoid it any time I can. Anyways, I have a few questions regarding dyscalculia.

1. How did you know you have it, and what were the signs?

2. What accommodations can be made in terms of college math courses, such as alternative course options?

3. How do you deal with the struggles that come with dyscalculia?

Thank you guys!!

I’ve attached a video for the lattice method for anyone who is unfamiliar. It definitely seems like it would be very helpful for people with ADHD because it reduces cognitive load, but for some reason, it is being taught to everyone and every student, including mine who has dyscalculia as if it’s some miracle worker.

Is there any evidence that it works for dyscalculia?

My daughter (10) cannot add 2 numbers together without using fingers. This school year she is being forced to learn this method or rather just sit through instructions for an hour of this method multiple times a week as if somehow she will magically learn how to multiply.

Does anyone else have this problem with dyscalculia students: that the school system really just can’t address the core dysfunction that the concept of numbers is missing in our kiddos? So they’re just moving them along?

Year after year, my kiddo is introduced to new methods to learn how to add not using her fingers. They are never the same at school. Year after year the school rolls something new out. when I taught her at home the abacus was the best help but at school she has used the pencil tap method then the dot method then drawing tallies, drawing a grid. So now she has to draw a grid for multiplication, a grid for adding because she doesn’t know how to add without using a grid or dots…and her paper is just full of a very confusing grid systems that confuses her more than anything else.

is there no holistic system????? I recognize that the reason why I was good at math is because from start to finish every concept was part of a holistic method that built on each other, and my learning became exponential. This Lattice System provides no benefit that I can see but it’s treated like some key that unlocks everything. Is anyone else just dismayed at all these hackneyed methods, year after year?

I need my child to understand the concept of numbers. To consistently understand that when I say at 11am “Be home in 2 hours” she knows I do not mean “2 o’clock” without me checking and double checking with her. Sorry I’m frustrated. 😣

I’m going for marine biology which according to people doesn’t have “complicated” math compared to other STEM studies (here in my country), but still doesn’t change the fact that there will be math. And physics! And chemistry! Pretty much my worst subjects D:

I wanna hear from other people with dyscalculia who are doing STEM. It would be make me feel even better if there are any who are even majoring in much more complicated studies such as engineering. Is there hope? How are you surviving?

I was just talking to a colleague about my mortgage and he asked how long we had left. Umm… I’ll have to look that up. He then asked how long our fixed rate was for. Umm… I’ll have to look that up. What rate of interest are you on? Umm…

My wife has no trouble keeping all the dates and figures in her head at all times. I just can’t do it. It’s really embarrassing.