So, I’ve never been good at math ever. I always was a straight A student except for freaking math. Having the same problem in uni, I’ve been telling close ones for years that I might have a math learning disability and they always say it’s just because I’m not trying hard enough. I failed my last math class (basic algebra) told I wasn’t doing enough. (I went to office hours everyday, tutoring, and tried and tried and TRIED.) and I’m retaking it again. so I’m asking, how do I learn basic math when all numbers just look like jumbled up sequences of code. Genuinely. No one believes me when I say I struggle with this and when i describe what i see when i try to do math. Addresses are hard to memorize, phone numbers are impossible for me to recall, even my own, numbers sometimes all look the same or switch to another. Why are numbers so hard. WHAT do I do. I’m so tired!!

i think i have it even if it’s not an official test, i felt so called out by the questions 😭😭

Someone told me Dyscalculia has a link to Autism, Has anyone heard of this?

I'm 31 and based in the UK (sorry we call it maths here) and I've struggled with numbers and the whole subject my whole life. I excelled with most of my other subjects at school, however when it came to mathematics, I just couldn't get my head around it. I was extremely fortunate that I received extra help at school and that my parents recognised my struggles and had me going to personal maths tutor, but despite all this I still only got a C in maths (I'm fairly convinced that the grade boundaries were heavily lowered though due to our school year doing so badly).

During college, the tutors recognised my struggles and organised some sort of dsycalculia assessment type thing along with other students who were struggling. Stupidly, I never finished the assessment (turns out I had undiagnosed ADHD which I've only had diagnosed this year), so I never found out.

I have a degree in Biology which thankfully doesn't have too much maths involved, but I've had enough of just getting by trying to avoid the subject, so the last few months I've been trying to re-learn it starting from the very basics. My partner is a maths whizz and he offered to help me, claiming that I probably just had bad teachers, but then he said he was finding it difficult because I just can't grasp basic stuff and I ask weird questions like "but why is a 7, 7"? or "but why is this number on top during a fraction?". Just getting really deep into it, it's like a whole different language for me. I can't visualise numbers and calculations, even when I write it down and my brain just gets muddled so easily. I couldn't figure out 20/1=20.. because I can't visualise it, I just see a different language that I need to try memorise, so I don't know the difference between 20/1 or 1/20. It's embarrassing because I still need to do basic maths in my job and I can't do simple stuff because I just don't understand it, or I know the answer but I don't understand why that's the answer. Sometimes I overthink a correct asnwer so much that I end up making it incorrect.

I'm so embarassed and sad about this. I feel like no matter how hard I try, I just can't get it. When I was learning basic fractions, I had to draw pictures of pizza slices and stuff and I was still getting it wrong. I'm 31 years old and I can't do basic fractions or times tables or literal primary school maths. No matter which method I try, I get confused. I've tried books, youtube videos, mock tests, my partner going through questions with me.

I don't know what to do, I really want to keep trying to learn but it's just making me feel depressed and stupid :(

I had a conversation with someone and they told me that neurodivergent conditions like dyscalculia or dyslexia don't always occur in isolation. which are generally like accompaniments to other "major" divergences such as ADHD, etc.How true is this? How many of you suffer from something similar? Or has anyone heard anything about it?

I haven’t been diagnosed with dyscalculia but I think it’s very likely.

So last year I got tutored in algebra 1 almost everyday for 9 months and failed most of the tests and quizzes and by the end of the year I failed my final.

My MAP score even went from 205 to 235 but i still couldn’t pass an “easy” final with a cheat sheet that had every single formula.

I’ve never been good at math and was constantly shamed by everyone around me for it.

I don’t really care about school but it’s the only safe way for me to make money. I hate reading and writing but I’m slightly above average at it so maybe I can do something related to it?

My main interests are Minecraft and power systems but that’s not gonna make me any money.

Where I live (poland) when you end high school, you must pass a test called "matura" about the things you've learned in high school to be able to go to collage. Each subject has its own matura, and you must pass math, polish and a foreign language (usually english or german, sometimes french)

I passed my maturas with great grades, even on the additional ones i took, however, i just cant pass the math one

to pass you need to get at least a 30% score. My first attempt got a 28%, my second got a 2%

You can only take matura twice a year, and i've been studying nonstop all year to pass because. I was pulling all nighters, watching lessons, taking a tutor... Still, I just can't learn.

I feel so stupid, today I was taking a mock matura and again, I failed, I feel so fucking stupid. I don't understand any of the material, i forget it as soon as i go onto the next topic. I barely passed my math class, and I dont think I'll pass the matura no matter how hard i try.

The amount of despair i feel over this is just. undescribeable. Nothing I try works. I dont even think my study sessions are effective anymore because I always end up in tears. I keep having to take breaks to just cry over how little sense all of this makes.

Art is my passion, I wanna go into design and animation, and i think i wont ever achieve my dreams because i just CANT understand these goddamn numbers

I do want to mention that I have autism, which dyscalculia can co-occur with I believe.

I did a bunch of searching earlier because I saw a video that I kinda corresponded with and was curious, then I realized dyscalculia wasn’t exactly “dyslexia but numbers”. I didn’t really know how complex it was😓

I did summarize most of this, by the way. I didn’t really want to write full sentences on such small paper

What do you guys think?

hi im 29F trying to get my GED but i currently test at a 7th grade level. on a "good day" i also have chronic illnesses that give me brain fog sometimes. but my main thing is how do i learn the math portion of the test like, completely online, for free? im sure this common knowledge is out there.

I’m currently (15M) I’m in a fairly large high school in NYC, as long as I can remember I’ve always sucked at math when ever I would see numbers even simple 2 digit operations I would just shut down and do it very slowly, as I got older I managed to get the hang of simple 1-4 digit operations in elementary school and once I entered middle school and started algebra that’s when I really started getting worse every time I had a equation or a expression with a variable I simply couldn’t do it properly and it would just give up, I managed to pass but I did fail some marking periods and during the New York State algebra 1 reagents I failed terribly now I’m 2 years ahead in everything else and 1 year behind on math, I’m familiar with the formulas but when I have to solve for any variable I just get it wrong every time.

I’m posting here because I believe some people here can relate to me and possibly give me some tips to sharpen my math I don’t think I have dyscalculia (I’m probably just terrible at it )

Before someone asks I have tried tutoring but it doesn’t really help I still end up getting stuck

Imagine you are at a really big party, and you don’t know anyone. You meet six, five, three, seven, four, one, eight, etc. You’re not very good with names, you forget them almost immediately, so you can only go by faces, and you’re not totally sure if that is nine or six, so you just guess their name and hope you are right and apologize if you are wrong. Later on, you encounter four and two again, and they are married, and have their child with them, six, or is it eight? You cannot remember, and you don’t want to insult them. At the shrimp cocktail station you run into five again, and he is next to seven, but you don’t know if they are together or not, and now the faces are starting to blur, and everyone has moved around so much that you don’t remember anyone’s name or who they are with. Everyone else at the party has no problem remembering everyone’s names and relationships, except for you, and you feel like you are being rude, or worse, lazy. This party never ends, and sometimes it seems like the people are switching faces and names, and you feel like you are going insane.

Well, I finally figured out that I almost certainly have dyscalculia because I was looking online for help with video games. I can’t tell left from right so constantly press the wrong buttons and get super confused by numbers. I just assumed I was just weirdly dumb my whole life. I had never bothered to look up the symptoms to dyscalculia- I’d never even heard of it- but I have EVERY. SINGLE. SYMPTOM.

Anyway, back to the issue at hand, anyone have any recommendations for how to play video games with complete left right confusion and 0 working memory for numbers and no capacity for mental math. I want to play stardew valley, Minecraft and Dave the diver and was struggling with all 3.

What accommodations have you been able to request to support a PhD that requires statistical analysis and advanced computational concepts?

I am up to the analysis of my datasets and I am using social network analysis (SNA) and graph theory. I have found papers that support what I want to do, I have found software, and I use Claude to help write python code for me, but I am worried that I can't grasp some of the concepts or the outputs because I can't understand numbers. I like SNA because it is visual but I am worried I am not understanding the outputs accurately. My Supervisors are worried that I am not moving beyond the basics into something that would make a contribution to my field of computational behvioural science.

Idk if this is a Dyscalculia thing or NVLD thing (diagnosed with the former, fairly certain of the latter), but I really struggle with getting the jist of tables and graphs. As a Linguistics major, this is a problem. I asked my group partner for help in understanding and she did so, but now that we've moved on to individual projects, I'm really worried about messing up my data. To the Dyscalculics in Social Sciences/STEM, what are some tips for graphing?

Hello, a short lived dream of mine was to become an anasthesian assistant. Sadly it has to do with lots of numbers like heart rate and precise messuring so now i had to let go.

Are there any of you who have a job where numbers play a big part? I want to know if its possible to do one despite it.

I know we all have different amounts of discalculia, but generally speaking i wonder if there are people doing the job of ,for example a carpenter despite the discalculia..

I have a friend with many challenges including dyscalculia, and he seems to have trouble understanding the magnitude of certain situations. For example, we might have big plans to go somewhere, and he might ask to reschedule the day of​, not understanding that it was a big trip that took extensive planning. Or he might pay bus fare with cash instead of his Presto card (Canadian here) to "save money" even though I have explained to him that Presto is actually cheaper. He also seems to misjudge time, will do things like arrive late at an event because he took an hour to do some errands, or stop at home instead of going directly from work, or mention stopping at a convenience store or a bar when there is virtually no time to do so.

I have never had experience with dyscalculia before but​ he apparently has it so I was wondering if there is a correlation. I did once work with someone who had no sense of time or numbers, and similar judgment blocks as well.

I just got a new job as a cashier at a grocery store and I'm really struggling. It's hard for me to count numbers normally and I get really stuck with large amounts. When I start to count an amount I literally just forget what number I'm on and have to do it again. I've been making so many errors, for example I accidently count from 69 to 80 and once I thought two fives added up to 20 instead of 10 and the lady got really mad at me. Does anyone have any tips? Anything would be helpful. I really need this job.

I strongly suspect that I have dyscalculia. I’m 26 I can’t do math to save my life.
In college my major was cs. I struggled to learn any programming language. The minute I see numbers, my brain shuts off. The same thing happened when I was trying to learn guitar. I just can’t seem to learn no matter how hard I try. Music theory goes over my head.

I suppose I am just dumb… I hope to get better. Math was the one subject I always flunked in. I have inattentive adhd, so maybe that has something to do with it? Irdk. I did above-average in the sciences (until math came in, so all the theory I could understand) and I excelled in language and humanities.
Anyone else have the same/similar issue? I feel so alone. I’m trying to get better. Started learning math from the 2nd grade level on khan academy. I even read ‘A Mind for Numbers’ by Barbara Oakley.

Anyone have any tips on how to get better at math? Thanks in advance.

i literally measured when cutting the cardboard for this diy lid i made but at the end it still didn’t fit exactly and i do this when baking too like i somehow put the wrong amount and i lowkey fuck up the recipe and idk how i got the measurements somehow incorrectly despite measuring 😭

I'm in Australia and I don't know if I should ask my GP about it? or if there's a better way