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Originally Posted by Billi
Stitchawl, I'm afraid you're thinking much too difficult. You only need to look at the first factorials..
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You've already lost me... right at 'factorial.'
I can't use a calculator or enter serial numbers for software without having to try several times before I get it right.
I took intermediate algebra three times in high school, and never once passed a test. My parents hired the Chairman of the Math department as my at-home tutor two nights a week for two years. Still, the highest score on any test I took was 57%. Of course, 65% was required to pass.
It wasn't until many years later that I discovered I suffered from dyscalculia, the learning disorder for numbers similar to dyslexia for reading. When I think of all the tears, the screaming and yelling, listening to 'you have to try harder,' or 'you're not paying attention!' that went on during those years, and no matter what I did, I just couldn't keep the numbers from flying around on the page... And no one ever heard of 'learning disorders' back then.
Interestingly enough, I had no problems with Geometry. All I had to do was parrot back the memorized the theorems (which were all words, so no problem) and I could get 75% of the score for each question, losing 25% for the actual number part. I was able to pass the class.
Fortunately, in Grad school, when I had to take 'Financial Management,' which required working with formulas to analyze business problems and writing out recommendations for action, I was able to explain my problem to the Prof, who paired me with another student who was dyslexic but an absolute wiz with numbers, and we both got our 'B!'
Stitchawl