Comments on: Living With Mathlexia http://booklineandsinker.com/2010/02/15/living-with-mathlexia/ Get reeled in. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:31:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Kari http://booklineandsinker.com/2010/02/15/living-with-mathlexia/comment-page-1/#comment-3547 Kari Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:23:48 +0000 http://booklineandsinker.com/?p=2735#comment-3547 I tutor junior high and high school math...and I can't believe how much it has stuck with me! I love math because it's fact; it can't be interpreted multiple ways, and it doesn't change with time. Somehow, as big of a bookworm as I've been my ENTIRE life, I've always scored way higher on standardized tests in math than in english. I think my brain just works better with numbers. .-= Kari´s last blog ..<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FiveBoroughBookReview/~3/EFG_kgvKw1A/thermometer-hit-60-break-out-books.html" rel="nofollow">The thermometer hit 60! Break out the books!</a> =-. I tutor junior high and high school math…and I can’t believe how much it has stuck with me! I love math because it’s fact; it can’t be interpreted multiple ways, and it doesn’t change with time. Somehow, as big of a bookworm as I’ve been my ENTIRE life, I’ve always scored way higher on standardized tests in math than in english. I think my brain just works better with numbers.
.-= Kari´s last blog ..The thermometer hit 60! Break out the books! =-.

]]> By: institutrice http://booklineandsinker.com/2010/02/15/living-with-mathlexia/comment-page-1/#comment-3509 institutrice Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:47:07 +0000 http://booklineandsinker.com/?p=2735#comment-3509 I LOVE math! I always have. At first it was hard to get algebra, but I figured it out. (I even taught myself how to add and subtract with negative numbers because the student teacher refused to show me after I was out very sick for a week.) I remember solving a geometry proof in 9th grade in fewer steps than the teacher said was possible. It wasn't til 12th grade that I hit a wall with calculus; I just Did. Not. Get. It. I felt really dumb about it for years (coming from a family of engineers) until I heard that people who are good at algebra might not get calculus and vice versa. Thank goodness! ;-) But I am one of the freaks who scored better on the math part of the SATs than the verbal, by 100 points. :-D And I am also a rarity because I'm an elementary school teacher who LOVES math - when they're talking about more time for reading and writing (which already get more time anyway), I'm the one whining, "What about math??" I love it that so many of my girls are good at math, and they're proud of it. I LOVE math! I always have. At first it was hard to get algebra, but I figured it out. (I even taught myself how to add and subtract with negative numbers because the student teacher refused to show me after I was out very sick for a week.) I remember solving a geometry proof in 9th grade in fewer steps than the teacher said was possible. It wasn’t til 12th grade that I hit a wall with calculus; I just Did. Not. Get. It. I felt really dumb about it for years (coming from a family of engineers) until I heard that people who are good at algebra might not get calculus and vice versa. Thank goodness! ;-) But I am one of the freaks who scored better on the math part of the SATs than the verbal, by 100 points. :-D And I am also a rarity because I’m an elementary school teacher who LOVES math – when they’re talking about more time for reading and writing (which already get more time anyway), I’m the one whining, “What about math??” I love it that so many of my girls are good at math, and they’re proud of it.

]]> By: Allie http://booklineandsinker.com/2010/02/15/living-with-mathlexia/comment-page-1/#comment-3466 Allie Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:19:46 +0000 http://booklineandsinker.com/?p=2735#comment-3466 You are so not alone in this! I can balance my checkbook, and I'm happy to leave it at that. :) .-= Allie´s last blog ..<a href="http://allielarkin.blogspot.com/2010/02/dont-look-back.html" rel="nofollow">Don't Look Back . . .</a> =-. You are so not alone in this!

I can balance my checkbook, and I’m happy to leave it at that. :)
.-= Allie´s last blog ..Don’t Look Back . . . =-.

]]> By: Beth F http://booklineandsinker.com/2010/02/15/living-with-mathlexia/comment-page-1/#comment-3383 Beth F Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:02:07 +0000 http://booklineandsinker.com/?p=2735#comment-3383 LOL!!! I do like algebra! But I hated geometry. Of course, after calculus in college, I haven't actually bought a math workbook... good for you! .-= Beth F´s last blog ..<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BethFishReads/~3/rJLPtbzxCV0/weekend-cooking-babettes-feast-film.html" rel="nofollow">Weekend Cooking: Babette's Feast (The Film)</a> =-. LOL!!! I do like algebra! But I hated geometry. Of course, after calculus in college, I haven’t actually bought a math workbook… good for you!
.-= Beth F´s last blog ..Weekend Cooking: Babette’s Feast (The Film) =-.

]]> By: Natalie http://booklineandsinker.com/2010/02/15/living-with-mathlexia/comment-page-1/#comment-3375 Natalie Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:50:55 +0000 http://booklineandsinker.com/?p=2735#comment-3375 An aside from Nat @BL&S: My precocious teenage cousin Lanie really is studying rocket science or some such insanity as a crazy school down south that is positively RIFE with math nerds. Lanie, I still love you even though you're a math nerd. xoxo from your favorite cousin An aside from Nat @BL&S:

My precocious teenage cousin Lanie really is studying rocket science or some such insanity as a crazy school down south that is positively RIFE with math nerds.

Lanie,
I still love you even though you’re a math nerd.
xoxo from your favorite cousin

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