**Please** tell me I'm normal; [maths]?

Question

I find advanced trigonometry [*extremely*] easy and I find advanced algebra [*extremely*] easy and I find *all* 'high level' mathematics easy [*extremely*]. Now, 'simple' addition and subtraction, now that I find hard.

Please please just tell me I'm normal.

I spose I'm not; I'll just have to help society another way. Say something nice.

Answer 1

Hey, nothing wriong with you! Some people are just arithmetically challenged, although they do fine with higher mathematics. My advice is to carry a calculator.

Answer 2

If you can do advanced trigonometry, as you say, and advanced algebra, you certainly have the capacity to add and subtract, which is pretty well presupposed in the above two areas. I certainly think this is true, and I hope you agree.

If so, then we take the contrapositive of the above statement: if you don't have the capacity to add and subtract, then you cannot do advanced trigonometry and advanced algebra. But you can. Contradiction! So you have the capacity to add and subtract.

You probably just need to practice.

Answer 3

It seems by your grammar and sentence structure that you believe you are not normal, and that you are, in fact, much more intelligent or advanced than normal people. At the same time you believe you possess a "quirk" which makes you even more unique than the "average" genius, but which also allows you to identify with normal people. It really, really looks like you're just fishing for compliments here.

So in the sense that you are stating your own personal uniqueness as so much hyperbole, you are very normal indeed. Just about everyone wants to stand out.

Answer 4

Stand so that your body makes a right angle with the surface you are standing on. Then you'll be normal.

Seriously though. People who are good at math are often poor at doing calculations in their head. I am Junior in college majoring in math. I don't do calculations in my head very well either. More advanced math has more to do with logic. Calculations have more to do with memorization of multplication tables and being able to remember digits in your head.

Answer 5

Your mind works on a different spatial plane that can take what many find difficult in math and have it make sense. It's not uncommon for people with minds such as yours (finding complex patterns easy) to find "simple" (I mean this in that most people find it simple) equations a bit more tricky. Celebrate your wonderful gift!

Answer 6

Hey I'm a doctor of physics, I have the same problem. And I've known many people who hold a doctorate in mathemtics who couildn't add up to save themselves. It is fairly normal and far more useful than the other way round.

Answer 7

no iwas the same when i was at school, all the hard stuff i could do, and i get a wrong answer simple cos i had the done the adding or subtracting wrong,

alos when i was doing a level maths my friend, who i had sat next to in maths for 6/7 years didnt understand/couldnt do fractions cos i had alwys done them for him, but all the hard stuff we were learing he was quite capable of understanding lol

i think you just forget the basics when you go onto harder things

Answer 8

Sometimes, understanding the higher functions, you lose or overlook the basics. My advise, slow down. you are taking the simple things in math (and maybe, in life) for granted.

And I really hope ur normal. If not, then I'm weird too.

Answer 9

Of course you're normal :) Just because they teach you addition and subtraction first doesn't necessarily mean that it has to be easier

Answer 10

I find all the things you find easy, its division that gets me so its not a problem!!!