huh, so the demon that caused me to drop out of highschool and ruined my life has a name...too late now though lol would have been good to learn about this back then when i still had a chance
I'm 48 and I've just faked my way through life. I can't do anything more difficult than very simple division. Working out my bills, etc, takes me hours. I can look at a telephone number, but if I look away and try and remember it, it's instantly gone. Something in my brain just wipes the slate clean. I can't understand insurance, eg a "no claim bonus", I'm like "what?". I can't play cards, or board games involving numbers and I have no sense of direction.
I believe I have this disability, and as a result, I failed my maths GCSE, and in order to study in college, they told me I have to redo my maths GCSE. Dispite this, they won't test me for it.
Thanks everyone for your responses and sharing your stories. Has anyone found anything that helps ease the anxiety of dyscalculia? Any sources we can share?
I am a 40 year old male, who still doesn't have my GED, despite several attemps, because I don't understand math on any level outside of basic adding and subtracting. I avoid anything regarding math. I was a Professional Landscaper for 12 years and if I ran across a job that required the square footage of a patio install, I would need my supervisor to figure out the math side and I would lay the patio, and I did beautiful work, but I couldn't figure out how many paver blocks I needed.
Let's see it only effects 5 percent of the population, could that be because there is a lack of awareness, I'm sure there are many other individuals who have gone undiagnosed. Yeah I'm terrible in high school algebra but I've had the same class for 2 years. I cant visualize the equations or understand the concept. I'm terrible with patterns and lack the basic skills in mathematics to excel in my work. I'm not inept I'm great in writing, history, science (not including the math portions), and am
As they said, dyscalculia affect only 5 percent of the population, so many of you who claim to be bad at math probably do not have it. Dyscalculia affects the very root, or foundation, of numbers, or quantitative reasoning. If you can add, subtract, multiply, divide, and graph simple equations, then you don't have the disability. If you are dong badly in Algebra 1 in high school, too bad you can't blame it on this condition. That's probably just a neural capacity limit for numbers.
When Mahesh held up that playing card, I counted the symbols as quickly as I could. I was never the first to answer a math problem, because I was busy counting or breaking it down in a drawing so I could see it better. I would eventually get to the answer, but it took me longer. I would like to hear more of what Mahesh had to say, but they frequently stifled him in this segment. I'm now an adult with math anxiety. How about the rest of you?
I have the same problems that many of you who have commented on here have stated about math. I cry constantly about math, am terrified when I go near the classroom or see someone from the same class. I have talked to someone at a mental health center about this and they agree that they believe I have dyscalculia. However, the testing is taking forever to get started. The doctors say its the insurance company dragging this out. I hope to get the testing started soon.
my mom keeps telling me that i dnt wanna learn math so thts y im failing it like nope i wanna go to medical school, all these stupid tutors who look at me and give up i know y IM SO TIRED OF CRYING
@mzluv2dance awww honey, i'm so sorry. Make your parents watch videos about it, have you tested and if they have any questions they can send me a pm. I'm 39 and have been dealing with it my entire life. Even before the disorder was given a name.
OMG. omg omg.... im seriously crying right now. let me explain. im above average in school, every subject, im very very smart. however, for math, i cant figure it out. every day it makes me so frustrated that i try so hard to hold back tears. i just cant understand it. i feel so relieved. i know i have this. i just wish my mother would understand that im not just slacking off in math, i just cant do it! im sooo relieved. thank you soo much.
Great Panel! We need more experts in this field to tell us about the facts. I think that if my teachers and parents would have been aware of my special needs I would have had the opportunity to actually learn math. I was finally diagnosed with dyscalculia in COLLEGE! Thanks to a Math and Pedagogy Professor who identified the symptoms the first moth she had me as a student. As an adult I am currently seeking for resources for remediation and strategies to be able to finally cope.
i have dyscalculea, my mum predicted that my primary school teachers boosted my maths SATs marks because i was getting 4Bs but in secondary school iv got a 3a it doesnt add up, I would love to be good at maths.
I think I have both dyslexia and dyscalulia. Not only have I always had a difficulty understanding math problems, but I will read them in reverse. I'll read 58 as 85. So even if I understand how to a problem, I'll get it wrong by writing the wrong numbers down. I even have to go very slowly when I write checks so that I don't write the wrong number down.
I feel sooooo relieved!!! I'm not stupid! I've spent years fearing numbers and crying over my math homework. I've always been really good at everything but math. I've had teachers just give up on me, because I just don't understand certain math concepts. I have so many of the symptoms for dyscalculia and all along I just ignored them because I just thought I was bad at math. The one that surprised me was that they are bad at sensing direction, I get lost in my town for crying out loud.
@MichaelaLeach I get lost all the time too! Even with a GPS! hahahah i just dont 'get' how to interpret the "in .5 miles, turn right' i just keep asking myself "how the heck am I supposed to know what .5 miles look like?!" hehehehe And I have trouble parking because I need more time than most of my peers to perceive and process space and dimensions. I have learned to just keep on going at my own pace, smile at my own mistakes, and never to feel sorry for myself.
Man, I hate math. I hate algebra. I'm always scared to walk in my Algebra class because I feel stupid. I get A's on my other classes but this one subject!!!!!!!!! Man, this one teacher assistant teased me. I cry and stress over the homework. >:'(
itsshort term memmory you can't rember the number. you keep looking back then when you start to do the prolem then you forgot the number that you wre going to add.and you start over until you get fustrated and do something else
@gypsymarika Wow, I had the exact same thing happen to me. My parents and my teacher wanted to know why I wasn't "getting it" .. they told me I just wasn't thinking or paying attention enough, when the truth is my brain just isn't functioned for math.
These number games are done for such a short period of time in public school and math is rarely stressed in school but reading is stressed a great deal. This is something that needs to be rectified. You get all of these reading worksheets and nothing for math in the early years.
I have dyscalculia and I am intelligent in non-math fields. My iq for reading/writing etc is in the 130's and I studied political science in university and was in the top 15% of my class yet I couldn't count by 5's in grade 2. I had to work VERY hard to get by and never understood it properly. Math is not needed to succeed in regular life, including in many jobs so your question is irrelevant and offensive unless you think that you need math for every job in existence.
Didn't mean to offend. I'm dyscalculic too and I have an average/above average IQ. It's just that I've been confronted (a lot) with employers that discriminate against people with any learning disability, regardless of whether it is relevant to the job. They just prefer hiring somebody who hasn't got a learning disability.
Oh well you don't have to tell them... but I guess if it gets in the way then it's hard. I think I'm pretty good compared to some people. Ie. I've never had trouble with time
@nuthead76 Exactly!!! I am a writer and am brilliant with words, and am a real 'people person'. I excelled at every other subject, but bottomed out at Maths.
huh, so the demon that caused me to drop out of highschool and ruined my life has a name...too late now though lol would have been good to learn about this back then when i still had a chance
lonelyqueen86 1 day ago
I'm 48 and I've just faked my way through life. I can't do anything more difficult than very simple division. Working out my bills, etc, takes me hours. I can look at a telephone number, but if I look away and try and remember it, it's instantly gone. Something in my brain just wipes the slate clean. I can't understand insurance, eg a "no claim bonus", I'm like "what?". I can't play cards, or board games involving numbers and I have no sense of direction.
jazzy6307 2 days ago
is it pronounced DyscalcuLEAH or DyscalQ-LA
DashingKardashiansTV 3 weeks ago
Thanks you so much!!!!!!!!!
ColtonXStuehrk 1 month ago
Thankyou very much for this video. Very informative. Thanks also for some solutions. I could share this with my friends in Fiji Islands.
bensflis 1 month ago
I believe I have this disability, and as a result, I failed my maths GCSE, and in order to study in college, they told me I have to redo my maths GCSE. Dispite this, they won't test me for it.
jleer1 1 month ago
w/out me you are NOTHING
scout6686 2 months ago
I'm sooooo horny
scout6686 2 months ago
Thanks everyone for your responses and sharing your stories. Has anyone found anything that helps ease the anxiety of dyscalculia? Any sources we can share?
tvoparents 2 months ago
I am a 40 year old male, who still doesn't have my GED, despite several attemps, because I don't understand math on any level outside of basic adding and subtracting. I avoid anything regarding math. I was a Professional Landscaper for 12 years and if I ran across a job that required the square footage of a patio install, I would need my supervisor to figure out the math side and I would lay the patio, and I did beautiful work, but I couldn't figure out how many paver blocks I needed.
townkevin59 2 months ago
And I am amazing with art, I also try to shy away from mathematics and lean more to philosophy.*
americiancomrade 2 months ago
Let's see it only effects 5 percent of the population, could that be because there is a lack of awareness, I'm sure there are many other individuals who have gone undiagnosed. Yeah I'm terrible in high school algebra but I've had the same class for 2 years. I cant visualize the equations or understand the concept. I'm terrible with patterns and lack the basic skills in mathematics to excel in my work. I'm not inept I'm great in writing, history, science (not including the math portions), and am
americiancomrade 2 months ago
As they said, dyscalculia affect only 5 percent of the population, so many of you who claim to be bad at math probably do not have it. Dyscalculia affects the very root, or foundation, of numbers, or quantitative reasoning. If you can add, subtract, multiply, divide, and graph simple equations, then you don't have the disability. If you are dong badly in Algebra 1 in high school, too bad you can't blame it on this condition. That's probably just a neural capacity limit for numbers.
tshenvideos 3 months ago
When Mahesh held up that playing card, I counted the symbols as quickly as I could. I was never the first to answer a math problem, because I was busy counting or breaking it down in a drawing so I could see it better. I would eventually get to the answer, but it took me longer. I would like to hear more of what Mahesh had to say, but they frequently stifled him in this segment. I'm now an adult with math anxiety. How about the rest of you?
Alicia4Peace 3 months ago
I have the same problems that many of you who have commented on here have stated about math. I cry constantly about math, am terrified when I go near the classroom or see someone from the same class. I have talked to someone at a mental health center about this and they agree that they believe I have dyscalculia. However, the testing is taking forever to get started. The doctors say its the insurance company dragging this out. I hope to get the testing started soon.
lkrause04 4 months ago
why do you keep making it sound like it only affects math skills? There is SO MUCH more to it!
purity4all 5 months ago
my mom keeps telling me that i dnt wanna learn math so thts y im failing it like nope i wanna go to medical school, all these stupid tutors who look at me and give up i know y IM SO TIRED OF CRYING
mzluv2dance 5 months ago
@mzluv2dance awww honey, i'm so sorry. Make your parents watch videos about it, have you tested and if they have any questions they can send me a pm. I'm 39 and have been dealing with it my entire life. Even before the disorder was given a name.
purity4all 5 months ago
OMG. omg omg.... im seriously crying right now. let me explain. im above average in school, every subject, im very very smart. however, for math, i cant figure it out. every day it makes me so frustrated that i try so hard to hold back tears. i just cant understand it. i feel so relieved. i know i have this. i just wish my mother would understand that im not just slacking off in math, i just cant do it! im sooo relieved. thank you soo much.
sar1dance 5 months ago
@sar1dance me2 and i always got in trouble or yelled at bc i didnt understand
mzluv2dance 5 months ago
@sar1dance There is more to it than math though, you need to look into and consider all the symptoms before you self diagnose.
purity4all 5 months ago
Great Panel! We need more experts in this field to tell us about the facts. I think that if my teachers and parents would have been aware of my special needs I would have had the opportunity to actually learn math. I was finally diagnosed with dyscalculia in COLLEGE! Thanks to a Math and Pedagogy Professor who identified the symptoms the first moth she had me as a student. As an adult I am currently seeking for resources for remediation and strategies to be able to finally cope.
Liiomarys 5 months ago
i have dyscalculea, my mum predicted that my primary school teachers boosted my maths SATs marks because i was getting 4Bs but in secondary school iv got a 3a it doesnt add up, I would love to be good at maths.
kayteekisskiss 7 months ago
I think I have both dyslexia and dyscalulia. Not only have I always had a difficulty understanding math problems, but I will read them in reverse. I'll read 58 as 85. So even if I understand how to a problem, I'll get it wrong by writing the wrong numbers down. I even have to go very slowly when I write checks so that I don't write the wrong number down.
SonicDeeHedgehog 7 months ago
I feel sooooo relieved!!! I'm not stupid! I've spent years fearing numbers and crying over my math homework. I've always been really good at everything but math. I've had teachers just give up on me, because I just don't understand certain math concepts. I have so many of the symptoms for dyscalculia and all along I just ignored them because I just thought I was bad at math. The one that surprised me was that they are bad at sensing direction, I get lost in my town for crying out loud.
MichaelaLeach 8 months ago 24
@MichaelaLeach same with me!
Pulerull 5 months ago
@MichaelaLeach I get lost all the time too! Even with a GPS! hahahah i just dont 'get' how to interpret the "in .5 miles, turn right' i just keep asking myself "how the heck am I supposed to know what .5 miles look like?!" hehehehe And I have trouble parking because I need more time than most of my peers to perceive and process space and dimensions. I have learned to just keep on going at my own pace, smile at my own mistakes, and never to feel sorry for myself.
Liiomarys 5 months ago
@MichaelaLeach Your not stupid. A lot of people are bad in math. Like me;)
crabfishlion 3 months ago
@MichaelaLeach i know how you feal i have felt like a moron for a long time untill watching this video
cowboy8555 2 weeks ago
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joes677 1 year ago
Man, I hate math. I hate algebra. I'm always scared to walk in my Algebra class because I feel stupid. I get A's on my other classes but this one subject!!!!!!!!! Man, this one teacher assistant teased me. I cry and stress over the homework. >:'(
xMaddyTay 1 year ago
itsshort term memmory you can't rember the number. you keep looking back then when you start to do the prolem then you forgot the number that you wre going to add.and you start over until you get fustrated and do something else
MrDaleaaaa 1 year ago 7
@MrDaleaaaa that's me... :/
Pulerull 5 months ago
@gypsymarika Wow, I had the exact same thing happen to me. My parents and my teacher wanted to know why I wasn't "getting it" .. they told me I just wasn't thinking or paying attention enough, when the truth is my brain just isn't functioned for math.
I wish more people were aware of dyscalculia.
lolipopPrincess 1 year ago
These number games are done for such a short period of time in public school and math is rarely stressed in school but reading is stressed a great deal. This is something that needs to be rectified. You get all of these reading worksheets and nothing for math in the early years.
nosuchthingasauserna 1 year ago
And what do you do when you're a dyscalculic adult, that tries to get a, and keep a job????
Cassavius 1 year ago
@Cassavius you learn to make yourself valuable to an employer.
nosuchthingasauserna 1 year ago
@Cassavius
I have dyscalculia and I am intelligent in non-math fields. My iq for reading/writing etc is in the 130's and I studied political science in university and was in the top 15% of my class yet I couldn't count by 5's in grade 2. I had to work VERY hard to get by and never understood it properly. Math is not needed to succeed in regular life, including in many jobs so your question is irrelevant and offensive unless you think that you need math for every job in existence.
nuthead76 1 year ago
@nuthead76
Didn't mean to offend. I'm dyscalculic too and I have an average/above average IQ. It's just that I've been confronted (a lot) with employers that discriminate against people with any learning disability, regardless of whether it is relevant to the job. They just prefer hiring somebody who hasn't got a learning disability.
Cassavius 1 year ago
@Cassavius
Oh well you don't have to tell them... but I guess if it gets in the way then it's hard. I think I'm pretty good compared to some people. Ie. I've never had trouble with time
nuthead76 1 year ago
@nuthead76 Exactly!!! I am a writer and am brilliant with words, and am a real 'people person'. I excelled at every other subject, but bottomed out at Maths.
jazzy6307 2 days ago
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Cassavius 1 year ago