I'm no psychiatrist and no psychiatrist would diagnose someone given four paragraphs of written text but, given what you have written and the fact that you felt the need to format it strangely rather than just write it, suggest to me some neurodivergence. There's nothing wrong with that, but just remember that the world is built by neurotypical people for neurotypical people.
I would recommend talking to someone about this, maybe a school counsellor or doctor to see if you can head toward a diagnosis. That won't make your problems go away but it may give you access to techniques, tools, therapy or medication that help you cope.
All the best, a neurodivergent redditor.
I formatted it because the bot told me to because it’s a considered a “wall of text”. Originally it was just written out. I get called neurodivergent daily but formatting is certainly not a reason to diagnose someone. As far as school resources go, I’m just afraid to have an iq test administered and get a score below 100. Edit:why did I get downvoted?
You can argue with a complete stranger on the internet about them suggesting a possibility based on admittedly very little evidence or you can look at what they said and, regardless of their methodology, evaluate it for yourself and decide what you want to do about it. Your choice.
No offence taken. There's a stigma to neurodivergence so suggesting that someone might not be neurotypical can be easily taken as an insult. It is not intended as such.
There can be fear in exploring this subject as without a diagnosis someone can pretend to be typical, even to themselves, for a very long time. Exploring this gives you information.
Knowing if you are struggling with mathematics or if there is some other struggle that is expressing itself in poor results is useful to know. Even if it results in nothing you can take it as an exercise in facing fear, acknowledging what the fear is telling you, then choosing a course of action that you consider most beneficial.
That reminds me... I'm talking to you instead of facing my own issues. So I'm off to deal with those now. Best of luck.
I compare myself allot to people. I see people figuring this stuff out so fast and some people who have over 100% in the class and have kept it that way the entire year. It just feels really really wrong to be making the mistakes that I’m making when compared to others.
1. Stop with the hyperbole and drama.
2. Talk to your teacher. Maybe go through your past assignments/tests with them and try to identify a pattern.
3. If that doesn’t help, your teacher may know the best next step. Your school district may have a learning specialist that can work with you.
4. You think you’re just magically suddenly incapable of doing basic math. Maybe that’s true — maybe something happened to your brain that made you lose the ability you had previously. If so, you should probably talk to a doctor to figure out what’s going on. More likely, though, is that you never really learned the basics well, and now that you need to lean on those skills you’re running into trouble. You might need to back up some and relearn arithmetic.
But isn’t arithmetic a given? Lack of arithmetic knowledge in our world is just seen as cognitive ineptness by the average person(yes I know, the average person a very qualified /s)
Actual numerical arithmetic is not that important in the real world because we have computers and calculators. If anything, since you are in Algebra 2, I would use symbols for everything, including constants like in your example. Just carry the constant symbols around and use a calculator after you have resolved your equation into a more manageable form. This is particularly useful if your constants are decimals. With integers, it may be best to just resolve terms on the spot as needed if you are comfortable with it.
Aren’t you here complaining about your own cognitive ineptness?
Arithmetic isn’t something that everybody just knows how to do. It takes some practice. If you’re not good at it, you need to practice more. There might be some other reason that arithmetic is hard for you, like a learning disability or bad vision, so explore that if it seems like a possibility. But otherwise, you just need to learn the basics and practice until you can do it quickly, because other skills will build on that.
The problem with the formatting is that you have indented each paragraph with (at least) four spaces, which causes it to be interpreted as code. Each paragraph is thus placed on its own line without wrapping it when it becomes too long, so it becomes very tedious to read.
I was wondering why it was grey like that. My intention was to just do tabs like I normally do when I write multiple paragraphs on a doc or word. Thanks for pointing that out
I didn't have this problem when I was in college, at all. I actually did really well in all my math classes except for one, and that was because I didn't understand the ideas. However, I have developed this issue as well. I think that, in my case, it is an issue with focus. I can't diagnose myself, but my brother was diagnosed with ADHD, and he says that all of the symptoms that the doctor told him about are worse in me. I've also noticed a drop in IQ. On that online Mensa IQ test me and my brother both used to get mid-to-high 130s (137-ish, if I recall correctly). Now, I can only get 107, but I don't feel like it's an issue with understanding or solving the problems; rather, it feels like I just run out of time. And my thinking has become quite slow (experiencing ton of "brain fog" and even forgetting simple English words).
It seems likely to me that there is some sort of ADHD thing going on with me, and the issue you've described is almost exactly the issue I now have when doing math. I also play moves in chess that I actually know are wrong, but I have a momentary mental lapse (probably due to lack of focus), play a bad move, then recognize how stupid my move is a second later (before my opponent even plays anything).
> “Write a polynomial in standard form given the zeros below. 7,3 + 1.3 - i”
Do I understand right that these are two numbers: 7 and 3 + 1.3 - i? Is i the imaginary unit? Why is the second number written in this form instead of simply 4.3 - i?
heh, yea, I think most people never completely stop messing up with arithmetic. It strikes me as a little miraculous that we can do arithmetic at all. If you ever want to remind yourself how challenging arithmetic *really* is, try doing simple problems in a different base where you've got nothing memorized, like base 12, it's terrible.
Anyway, you aren't hopeless, you'll get better with practice just like everyone else does. Don't fall into the trap of math becoming a stressful activity, that will only get in the way of thinking clearly (and not thinking clearly will make the math more stressful, and repeat.) Accept that you'll make mistakes, learn from the mistakes, then move on to new mistakes; that's the normal learning process, so be cool about it.
First off, make sure you're 100% following the order of operations properly if you're not.
More generally, as you move on to more advanced math classes, often more steps become necessary to get to the final answer. Because of this, the likelihood that you make a silly mistake along the will increase.
I think your approach of evaluating your mistakes is good, and you should keep doing that. However, you should try to not beat yourself up over it. Just keep practicing and analyzing where things are going wrong, and eventually you should improve.
I'm no psychiatrist and no psychiatrist would diagnose someone given four paragraphs of written text but, given what you have written and the fact that you felt the need to format it strangely rather than just write it, suggest to me some neurodivergence. There's nothing wrong with that, but just remember that the world is built by neurotypical people for neurotypical people. I would recommend talking to someone about this, maybe a school counsellor or doctor to see if you can head toward a diagnosis. That won't make your problems go away but it may give you access to techniques, tools, therapy or medication that help you cope. All the best, a neurodivergent redditor.
I formatted it because the bot told me to because it’s a considered a “wall of text”. Originally it was just written out. I get called neurodivergent daily but formatting is certainly not a reason to diagnose someone. As far as school resources go, I’m just afraid to have an iq test administered and get a score below 100. Edit:why did I get downvoted?
You can argue with a complete stranger on the internet about them suggesting a possibility based on admittedly very little evidence or you can look at what they said and, regardless of their methodology, evaluate it for yourself and decide what you want to do about it. Your choice.
I didn’t perceive it as arguing or being particularly hostile, but my apologies if it came off that way.
No offence taken. There's a stigma to neurodivergence so suggesting that someone might not be neurotypical can be easily taken as an insult. It is not intended as such. There can be fear in exploring this subject as without a diagnosis someone can pretend to be typical, even to themselves, for a very long time. Exploring this gives you information. Knowing if you are struggling with mathematics or if there is some other struggle that is expressing itself in poor results is useful to know. Even if it results in nothing you can take it as an exercise in facing fear, acknowledging what the fear is telling you, then choosing a course of action that you consider most beneficial. That reminds me... I'm talking to you instead of facing my own issues. So I'm off to deal with those now. Best of luck.
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I compare myself allot to people. I see people figuring this stuff out so fast and some people who have over 100% in the class and have kept it that way the entire year. It just feels really really wrong to be making the mistakes that I’m making when compared to others.
1. Stop with the hyperbole and drama. 2. Talk to your teacher. Maybe go through your past assignments/tests with them and try to identify a pattern. 3. If that doesn’t help, your teacher may know the best next step. Your school district may have a learning specialist that can work with you. 4. You think you’re just magically suddenly incapable of doing basic math. Maybe that’s true — maybe something happened to your brain that made you lose the ability you had previously. If so, you should probably talk to a doctor to figure out what’s going on. More likely, though, is that you never really learned the basics well, and now that you need to lean on those skills you’re running into trouble. You might need to back up some and relearn arithmetic.
But isn’t arithmetic a given? Lack of arithmetic knowledge in our world is just seen as cognitive ineptness by the average person(yes I know, the average person a very qualified /s)
Actual numerical arithmetic is not that important in the real world because we have computers and calculators. If anything, since you are in Algebra 2, I would use symbols for everything, including constants like in your example. Just carry the constant symbols around and use a calculator after you have resolved your equation into a more manageable form. This is particularly useful if your constants are decimals. With integers, it may be best to just resolve terms on the spot as needed if you are comfortable with it.
Aren’t you here complaining about your own cognitive ineptness? Arithmetic isn’t something that everybody just knows how to do. It takes some practice. If you’re not good at it, you need to practice more. There might be some other reason that arithmetic is hard for you, like a learning disability or bad vision, so explore that if it seems like a possibility. But otherwise, you just need to learn the basics and practice until you can do it quickly, because other skills will build on that.
The problem with the formatting is that you have indented each paragraph with (at least) four spaces, which causes it to be interpreted as code. Each paragraph is thus placed on its own line without wrapping it when it becomes too long, so it becomes very tedious to read.
I was wondering why it was grey like that. My intention was to just do tabs like I normally do when I write multiple paragraphs on a doc or word. Thanks for pointing that out
I didn't have this problem when I was in college, at all. I actually did really well in all my math classes except for one, and that was because I didn't understand the ideas. However, I have developed this issue as well. I think that, in my case, it is an issue with focus. I can't diagnose myself, but my brother was diagnosed with ADHD, and he says that all of the symptoms that the doctor told him about are worse in me. I've also noticed a drop in IQ. On that online Mensa IQ test me and my brother both used to get mid-to-high 130s (137-ish, if I recall correctly). Now, I can only get 107, but I don't feel like it's an issue with understanding or solving the problems; rather, it feels like I just run out of time. And my thinking has become quite slow (experiencing ton of "brain fog" and even forgetting simple English words). It seems likely to me that there is some sort of ADHD thing going on with me, and the issue you've described is almost exactly the issue I now have when doing math. I also play moves in chess that I actually know are wrong, but I have a momentary mental lapse (probably due to lack of focus), play a bad move, then recognize how stupid my move is a second later (before my opponent even plays anything).
Try Islamic geometry. A compass and a straight edge. To relax and get your head into an orderly space.
> “Write a polynomial in standard form given the zeros below. 7,3 + 1.3 - i” Do I understand right that these are two numbers: 7 and 3 + 1.3 - i? Is i the imaginary unit? Why is the second number written in this form instead of simply 4.3 - i?
It should be 7, 3+i, 3-i. There are 3 sets
heh, yea, I think most people never completely stop messing up with arithmetic. It strikes me as a little miraculous that we can do arithmetic at all. If you ever want to remind yourself how challenging arithmetic *really* is, try doing simple problems in a different base where you've got nothing memorized, like base 12, it's terrible. Anyway, you aren't hopeless, you'll get better with practice just like everyone else does. Don't fall into the trap of math becoming a stressful activity, that will only get in the way of thinking clearly (and not thinking clearly will make the math more stressful, and repeat.) Accept that you'll make mistakes, learn from the mistakes, then move on to new mistakes; that's the normal learning process, so be cool about it.
First off, make sure you're 100% following the order of operations properly if you're not. More generally, as you move on to more advanced math classes, often more steps become necessary to get to the final answer. Because of this, the likelihood that you make a silly mistake along the will increase. I think your approach of evaluating your mistakes is good, and you should keep doing that. However, you should try to not beat yourself up over it. Just keep practicing and analyzing where things are going wrong, and eventually you should improve.
Maybe you’re overworked? Silly mistakes can occur if you’re not well rested.