Today, despite doing extra credit, staying after class to have one-on-one tutoring with the TA, doing online tutoring and watching YouTube videos, I still absolutely cannot do math! I’ve been reduced to bribing my nephew to do my work for me. I’m in college. He’s in 7th grade. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I was playing a math game with a 4th grade boy (I'm a college graduate). I cheated during the entire game, and still lost 7 of the 9 rounds we played. FML
Today, I failed a calculus exam because I simply was too burnt out to study for it. I have not wanted to even look at a math problem since the beginning of the year, and I procrastinate all day instead of doing work, and it leads me here, typing at 2 a.m. to random strangers while having to get up tomorrow at 7. FML
Today, I was working on a middle school project that needed to be at a 900 percent or above, this being my math level. I take a 8th grade algebra class so I needed mine to well be a 900, and after months of working I'd got it there. I got one answer wrong and it sent me to 860, where I’ve been for the last 12 hours. FML
Today, a professor approached me in the hall to ask if, since I'm a math major, I could tutor one of her communications majors in a required Calculus course. Apparently the volunteer tutor the school provides "is a complete dumbass." I'm the school's volunteer tutor. FML
Today, I listened to my roommate and her friend struggle with their math homework for an hour. It wouldn't be so bad, except for the fact that I'm a math major and repeatedly offered my help. They'd rather fail math than be around me. FML
Today, I got a big math test back. Good news: I can connect abstract ideas beyond what was taught. Bad news: I can’t do simple math, such as 30/-5. I failed. FML
Today, I cheated on my math exam. I still failed. FML
Today, disappointed with my results on a mathematics test, I went over it and realized my teacher had added up the marks incorrectly, leaving me with 17% less than I earned. The person who's supposed to be teaching me math can't even perform basic arithmetic. FML
Today, my parents, who aren’t usually lenient, allowed me to have my boyfriend over. We started to cuddle, things got a little heated, but then my sister walks in and says, “You do my math homework, or I tell mom what you guys were doing.” I don’t remember middle school math being this hard. FML
Today, one of my students corrected the problem I had solved on the board, explaining that you do multiplication before subtraction. I teach the second grade. FML
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Plop 17
It sounds to me that you've accumulated massive gaps over the years, and they're now preventing you from understanding the concepts you're supposed to be learning at your current level. Unless you're, e.g., a senior math major at Princeton, there's nothin you shouldn't be able to understand with the appropriate amount of time and effort. Also, what kind of 3rd rate university do you attend that teaches math that a 7-grader can handle???
Ghostrui 31
Is it possible that you might have dyscalculia? While there could be a plethora of other issues that might be at play, there's no way for me to know just from this FML submission, it's something you could look into if that could be a possibility.
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Plop 17
It sounds to me that you've accumulated massive gaps over the years, and they're now preventing you from understanding the concepts you're supposed to be learning at your current level. Unless you're, e.g., a senior math major at Princeton, there's nothin you shouldn't be able to understand with the appropriate amount of time and effort. Also, what kind of 3rd rate university do you attend that teaches math that a 7-grader can handle???
Royal Sataness 4
I can't either. anything number related, math, times, time frames, phone #, table #s at my restaurant. can't do any of it. I'm 42
RichardPencil 32
So, you've turned to cheating?
Ghostrui 31
Is it possible that you might have dyscalculia? While there could be a plethora of other issues that might be at play, there's no way for me to know just from this FML submission, it's something you could look into if that could be a possibility.
diraven 15
So who are you going to cheat off of when you get a job with your math degree?
core01 30
Most degrees require a college level proficiency in Math. If she's struggling this badly but her nephew can do it, then she's probably taking classes that are remedial level to catch up.
IHaveThePower 18
Go to your disability center and tell them this. They can probably figure out where the underlying issue is--and if it's this bad, yes, you have some kind of learning issue. Don't feel bad--I'm dyscalculic, and it turns out I can actually do math decently once i know what I'm doing.
And1 12
Why bother taking math then? Grow up!!
Taurus_ChicKa 37
I'm no mathematician but that doesn't add up... how can a seventh grader do college level math? Unless he's a genius. Do we have a new Sheldon Cooper in the world?