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Math!

Jules

Hi, I am currently studying for some very important exams I'll be taking next year. I think it's like a polish version of your A-levels (I live in Poland). So, I love math, I really do. However, I do struggle with it. I'm slower than everyone else and I make stupid mistakes. I am way better at math than I used to be, say in secondary school, but the mistakes are still there. I made big headway since I was 16 years old and I believe that if I could to that then I am able to go even further. Now that I know I have Aspergers (so my troubles with math are not something extraordinary) maybe I could find a new way to approach improving my mathematical thinking. Did any of you struggle with math? What extra work did you put in your studying to make it better? Or any other advice?

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  • I was good at Maths and went on to do a degree in it. Something that held me back is I had different, often intuitive, ways of calculating things. I would try to do it the proper way and get stuck. So of you want to do things your own way, maybe experiment. The odd thing was the further into maths I got the more my brain seemed to find it easy as it became more and more visual. Good luck with it, it is rewarding and a useful life skill.

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  • I was good at Maths and went on to do a degree in it. Something that held me back is I had different, often intuitive, ways of calculating things. I would try to do it the proper way and get stuck. So of you want to do things your own way, maybe experiment. The odd thing was the further into maths I got the more my brain seemed to find it easy as it became more and more visual. Good luck with it, it is rewarding and a useful life skill.

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