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if you even care.
#I love my rotten man#this is the real state of him btw thats how he is behind the scenes#dont ask me if Im done with chapter 3 I am not#bad at math#mr. hamato#rottmnt#rottmnt donnie#rise of the tmnt#rottmnt donatello#tmnt#my artwork#futuredonnatello#rise future donnie#future donatello#f!donatello#f!donnie
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Commence the Screaming
This is a blog about innumeracy.
Innumeracy is like illiteracy, but for numbers. I have dyscalculia - or "math dyslexia," if you prefer something easier to say that more people also understand.
Like most people with dyscalculia, I've had it my whole life. I've also been functionally innumerate my whole life. I can count (usually); I can do basic addition and multiplication (kind of), subtraction (sometimes) and division (ehhh....). I hate games that involve counting money or keeping score. I can read an analog clock if you make me. I mix up my right and left more than random chance allows. I get lost a lot.
My math skills top out at "calculate a 20% tip on this bill" or "count change." I can't even reliably use a calculator for a lot of things, because calculators need the user to know what they're trying to get the calculator to calculate, and I can't always tell the thing the steps in the right order.
I'm 42, and for 42 years, I've hated, avoided, and feared basic math. I have three college degrees - not one requiring a single math course. I'm fascinated by several topics involving math, but I can't do them. The numbers knock me out of contention every time.
So why - now, when I have my own house, a stable job that requires only the occasional calculator arithmetic, a reliable car, and something resembling a savings account - do I care to change that?
Honestly...I don't know. There are certainly a few factors in play, including:
Most of my friends are math nerds, science nerds, and/or spatial-reasoning-artist nerds, and I want to appreciate their nerdery appropriately;
My students are aware that I'm a giant nerd who is interested in everything and thus love to ask me questions, and it hurts to admit to 15 year olds that I'm better at ancient Greek than at basic algebra;
I read Ben Orlin's Math With Bad Drawings and I want to be able to do the math, dang it. (I can already do bad drawings.)
But the biggest one is this:
Having learned what it is like to spend 40 years of one's life hating and fearing math, I don't want to spend another 40 years of my life hating and fearing math.
So...here we go. Middle-aged librarian tries to get slightly less bad with the numbers. Much screaming ensues. Ask me anything.
#math#dyscalculia#actually dyscalculic#learning disability#learning disorder#learning difficulties#mathematics#teaching math#math teachers#math dyslexia#bad at math#embarrassing myself
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This Frog Can't Do Math
Neither can I little dude, neither can I.
Small acrylic painting on wood I did last spring. 4x4 inches. I hate painting, but this one, this dude is literally my son.
#thisfrogisliterallymyson#thatsright#ibirthedhim#acrylic#acrylicpainting#art#frog#artists on tumblr#foxthateatsoilpaintings#bad at math#stupid ass frog#my son#painting
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i finally finished my DIY scary jokes shirt! YIPPEE🌕🚀🔭
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FML I FAILED MY MATH TEST
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He somehow always finds his way into my work…
My head cannon is that Bill is isosceles, and Pyramid Steve is equilateral
#bill cipher#maths#pyramid Steve#silly doodle#silly bill doodle#gf bill cipher#bill cipher doodle#he is in my work#bill cipher in my maths work#gravity falls fandom#Bill Cipher and Pyramid Steve#bill cipher doodles#pencil#pencil sketch#gravity falls doodles#art#gravity falls#bill#gravity falls bill#pen#work#bad at math#math class#class doodles
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always strugglin' 😭 📐 //Pins & stickers are back.
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The sheer number of math-question memes like, “My sister was twice my age when I was 5, so how old will she be when I’m 45?” proves two things:
1) we’re collectively terrible at math, and
2) this probably millennial-era joke has somehow achieved eternal life.Its unfazed by logic, surviving every generation.
#comedy#funny memes#funny tumblr#relatable#it is what it is#gen z funny#gen z stuff#maths#mathematics#mathblr#math#i love maths#i hate maths#women in stem#common sense#gen z thoughts#bad at math#college#gen z culture#uni life#student#maths posting#mathskills#dumb shit#millennial humor#this is so stupid#i cant believe this#i cant
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on this day in 2013
me: I DID MATH IN MY HEAD AND IT WAS RIGHT. 😳 me: granted it was only 'find the prime factors of 80,' . . . . but I'm going to enjoy this moment. me: I DID IT AGAIN! 😃 friend: BURN THE WITCH! me: I demand a fair trial! You at least have to see if I weigh the same as a duck
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I just realized I never actually posted this???? Its just a tiny sketch I did for Artfight this year but I think Mr. Hamato is lookin pretty fucking fresh here so yeah!!! Enjoy!
#In two months it will be an exact anniversary of me writing this fic gah damn#I wanna do some art for it or maybe even an animatic if I'll be feeling crazy enough#rottmnt#rottmnt donnie#bad at math#mr. hamato#rise of the tmnt#rottmnt donatello#tmnt#donatello#my artwork#teacher au#f!donatello#f!donnie#rise future donnie#future donatello#rottmnt fanart#artists on tumblr#digital aritst#digital drawing
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Something Very Weird Just Happened to Me, Fam
I was doing some subtraction problems (no beans this time), and I encountered 35-28.
And my brain went "aren't those just 7s*?"
So I did 5-4, which is 1. 1x7 is 7. Also the answer.
I would have chalked this up to random chance on a randomized worksheet (mathisfun.com), but then the worksheet gave me a second example: 49-21. And then 35-21.
So I did the same thing with the multiples of 7. And checked my work. And I started to spot a pattern:
Multiples of 7, subtracted from one another, result in the multiple of 7 that's the difference of the ones that got subtracted.**
Is...is this what they mean by "number sense"? Did I grow some number sense? Why do the numbers make sense??
WHAT IS HAPPENINNNG
AND WHY IS IT THE NERDIEST COOL THING I HAVE SEEN SINCE END OF EVANGELION

* we were not taught to use the multiplication table in elementary, but we were drilled via flashcards until we knew everything through 9x9 cold. The result is that I can pull any of those out of my head, but I cannot just recite any list of them.***
**I am aware I explained that badly and also that there's probably a way to express that in algebraic notation. I'll get there. Ya girl just realized 7x5 minus 7x3 equals 7x2 for the first time in 40 years, lol.
***Except the threes, because I saw Schoolhouse Rock.
#actually dyscalculic#learning disability#learning disorder#learning difficulties#math education#bad at math#Number sense#Mathblr#Math posting#embarrassing myself#math dyslexia#neurodivergent#Actually adhd
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I completely spaced out on the 3 sentence fic thing, so here goes:
Obi-Wan/Maul spaceship stealing
"I was here first, Jedi!" Maul snarled.
"Are we really going to argue 'dibs' when those slavers want us both for the fight pits, dear?"
"I'm not your dear!"
"Not yet, anyway." Winking, Obi-Wan hit the button to close the ramp, shutting out the blaster fire of the angry mob.
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I have come to the realization, that I should never ever borrow money or go unto debt.
So there are these little free libraries in my area, basically book trading posts, that are based on the honor system of 'take a book, leave a book' I owed three books total, two books to the one on the hill and one to the one by the beach. I went on my bike to pay of my debts with four duplicates from my room. At the one on the hill I put in my two books but then I saw that it had been stocked up and took a new book. Thus my debt raised back up to one to the one on the hill and I tried to leave one of my duplicates but it was to full so I decoded to come back in a week or so. Then I went to the one by the beach but I stopped by the one by the salvation army ans rook two books from there. I believed I only had one book for trading left because I forgot I had another in my bag and am bad at math, but I decided to pay of my debt at the one by the beach instead of only half my new debt to the one by salvation army. So I rode to the one by the beach and put my book in. This left me with a debt of one at the hill and two at the salvation army. I went to pay off my debt of 3 and came put with the exact same amount of debt, simply to slightly diffrent locations, and down on my rescorced of duplicate books I'm willing to give away.
I should never, ever, go into real monetary debt not reliant on the honor system.
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