Mine was math. I hated math (had a math block most of my life) because I couldn't do it. The most humiliating time was when the teacher called me to the blackboard to do a long division problem. I wanted to crawl in a hole and die because I knew I would not be able to solve the problem, and all my peers were watching. What was your experience with your worst subject?
2007-09-22 03:45:42 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
Maths!!! I still cant add beyond 2 + 2. O h dear. did you know there is a medical condition called dyscalcula. It is the number form of dyslexia. True I kid you not. It was in a book on ADD I was reading. Thankfully I do not have dyslexia.
When I look at a page of numbers I get a 'whiteout' in my head. Its as if the numbers don't go past my eyes. Like you I had some humiliating experiences in school. Glad that's all over now and I have a calculator!!!
2007-09-22 06:07:35 · answer #1 · answered by ? 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Geometry and all those d-amn idioms. unless you are going to be an architecht or engineer, who really needs that stuff! I hated math and will always hate math .I did like algebra though. emmapeel,I think I may have been next to you at the blackboard . Remember how it felt when you could hear snickering in the class and the teacher made you stand there for what seemed like forever until he asked you to take your seat. I still have nightmares about that!
2007-09-22 11:14:17 · answer #2 · answered by Donna 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I excelled in all the maths and sciences. As well as all the English grammar and composition courses. And I was the best artist of my year all the way through school.
The only thing that I could NEVER get, and I seemed to have some sort of mental block about, was languages. I couldn't even learn to think in French, let alone torture myself with Latin and Greek.
2007-09-22 15:37:44 · answer #3 · answered by Susie Q 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Latin without a doubt. There were too many endings for verbs
and I always seemed to choose the wrong one. The nuns said I invented a new language. Translating Latin into English was another trick I never got the hang of, I didn't know if they were coming, going, going as a group. It isn't a language that you could have a 'conversation" with any way. I guess i didn't much care
2007-09-22 11:16:40 · answer #4 · answered by slk29406 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
OMG that was me to a "T". I was identical, I swear. And invar-
iably the teacher would call me up there, once a week. And I
was dying before I reached the blackboard. And yet, when it
came to spelling, I was a whiz. When it came to a class
spelling bee, I was always one of two left. But math, no, I died
a thousand times, as the saying goes.
2007-09-22 12:44:34 · answer #5 · answered by Lynn 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mine was also maths. To this day, I depend on my fingers or a calculator lol.
Embarrassing moment with maths? No, but I had one in History class (which was dreadfully boring as we were doing the royal monarch/heirachy of Britain) was when I took a moment to write down the words to "Dear John" an old 45 rpm which my dad had at home - I knew them off by heart - wrote them down in letter form.
History teacher walked passed, picked up my "letter", asked how old I was then told me she was disgusted. She had red hair, but my face was even redder than her hair. The following day I marched up to the staff room with the old 45 rpm in tow to prove my "innocence" - this made her happy again but not my father - the fragile record broke while I sat down to have my lunch break.
2007-09-22 10:56:32 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Religious Knowledge - I had to do it to make up the number of exams I needed to take. I didn't beleive in it, (haven't since a child) couldn't see the point in it and tore it to shreds when I could find a modern answer to everything within.
This is literature made to keep the masses under control in the 17th century for goodness sake. Not something to take seriously when you are trying to get good exam results.
2007-09-22 10:53:31 · answer #7 · answered by YveyK 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Algebra, just could not get it even to this day. Glad I never had to go on the the higher math, Trig, Geometry, I really would have been lost. I have never had the need to use it anywhere in my life since, thank God.
2007-09-23 17:14:29 · answer #8 · answered by Moe 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Math was my worst. I had a really hard time with it. When I
got to high school, algebra was the worst. I only had one
year of it. I did okay in geometry. It's a wonder I was allowed to graduate. Yet, I married a mathematician.
2007-09-22 11:35:49 · answer #9 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I never understood why they pushed you to do math beyond what you wanted to do. It caused many of us to put up mental blocks. Either it clicks for you and you get it and go forward or we stall out. I have a daughter who is a math teacher and in 7th grade she just got it and went on wholeheartedly. While I decided in about 9th grade I would not or could not absorb any more. I went on to be a bookeeper but of course we have machines that did it for us.
2007-09-22 11:10:39 · answer #10 · answered by Southern Comfort 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋