I find this really weird. I'm 15, and I have problems citing times tables from memory. E.g, to work out the 7 x ,7, I have to do 5 x 7 + 7 + 7. If asked to do times tables, I work them out from quick addition from the little times tables I can cite, which I am quite good at. No body knows this, of course I wouldn't tell anyone in real life. However, I'm better at logical problems in maths and I'm excellent at algebra. I'm so good, according to the teachers, that I've been asked to do a self study maths course in order to do my exam a whole year early. I'm in the minority who have been asked to take it early.
I can't seem to remember any patterns of numbers. We're expected to cite prime numbers, triangular numbers, squared numbers, etc. But I'm good at remembering words, which makes me good at languages.
So, how is it that I can be top of the class at maths, but I have trouble rememberign simple number pattens.
Anybody else has a similar problem? What could cause this?
2007-02-05
03:03:04
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