Quote - I was told when I was young that I would never be good at maths, because I couldn't do equations in my head.

 

I'll have to try your forumla for matmatic.    Is that all I have to put into the notepad file?

I'm not good at higher math, but I can do the basics pretty easily.

When I started school it was kind of at the tail end of the imperial system and moving into metric.  We were still being taught fractions and such, but I just couldn't wrap my head around it.  I figured out how to convert a fraction into a decimal all on my own, but I couldn't figure out how to get it back to ratio form.  At first they were marking my answers wrong because they weren't in fraction, but eventually  because I was getting the right answer, just in a different format, they started to mark me based on the metric answers I gave.

So after having dealt with metric for most of my life, imagine my surprise when I applied to nursing school in the mid 1990's when I was in my 30's and told that we had to do an entrance exam that contained math questions.....all dealing with the imperial system and especially fractions and ratios!

I was in an utter panic!  I borrowed a kids book from the library called "Math 123 the Easy Way" or something like that, and studied it and sat down with my Sister-in-Law for a couple of days while she taught me how to do fractions and ratios.

I aced the entrance exam and all of the math tests in nursing school!

Part of my problem with math though is the fact that I'm dyslexic and I don't always process what I'm seeing, correctly, especially when under stress/pressure, such as tests.

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