Ugh...I must have dyscalculai or something...

<p>Im only taking an entry college level math class yet I havent gotten an A in a test yet. And it's not even because I dont get it. I do. I understand the steps to evaluate a problem and everything, but then...weird stuff starts to happen. Like, if a problem says x = 2/3 and ive been writing it down for every step, out of nowhere it becomes 2/4. I cant even explain it. And it happens disturbingly alot. Like for a test where I would have gotten everything right, but I just make crazy sporatic mistakes. An X becomes a Y or I tack on a nice negative sign in front of a would be correct problem, or i'll have something simple - practically free points - like "(insert convoluted problem) to the power of 0". And yet I dont put 1...I dont put 1.</p>

<p>And this happened in six places one time. I know I need to be more careful and i try to be but it's not until a see a nice red x and "??!" with an arrow pointing at the weird crazy mistake I made that I become aware of the crazy screw up. Sigh...the whole thing's a downer.</p>

<p>I am in calc 2 and i will tell u right now that dyscalulai does not get any better. I frequently find myself finishing the test and going back home to lay in bed. Before i go to sleep, i work out all the problems in my head again (not by choice) and find out these stupid stupid stupid mistakes that i made before i even get the test back!
i wish my math tests were take home, not even for someone else to do them, but so i could have less pressure while i’m taking them. </p>

<p>stupid mistakes r the worst, and math just isn’t very forgiving. Good luck! btw my professor suggests practice practice practice</p>

<p>I don’t think you do, since dyscalculia is where you have trouble comprehending even basic math. It has nothing to do with making tiny mistakes on a test.</p>

<p>Fake disorder. Why can’t people just accept that they aren’t good at something instead of labeling everything as a disease or a disorder? I’m terrible at learning foreign languages. I took Spanish for 4 years and I can barely speak it at all. Am I calling dysforeignlanguagia? No, I’m just bad at it.</p>

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<p>That isn’t true. You shouldn’t try to instruct people about things you only have an elementary understanding about.</p>

<p>OP, I actually have dyscalculia, and while the kind of mistakes you are making /could/ be related to dyscalculia, you would DEFINITELY have other issues.</p>

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<p>“Fake disorder. Why can’t people just accept that they aren’t good at something instead of labeling everything as a disease or a disorder? I’m terrible at learning foreign languages. I took Spanish for 4 years and I can barely speak it at all. Am I calling dysforeignlanguagia? No, I’m just bad at it.”</p>

<p>Im not denying that im not good at it and I probably dont have dyscalculai after further investigation. However, saying that there may be a REASON that explains why people are bad at a subject is acceptable. There are people naturally gifted at art and music, does that mean everyone else just sucks at for no apparent reason or that these people had genetic and or a much more productive learning environment? It’s certainly more acceptable that there is an explaination than denying it.</p>