Im Looking for a good alternative math resource

You are very brave to post such a message on this board. Very brave! You need to get a good old fashioned ld test done stat, my man. I am by no means a clincian, but you really need a ld test done. Find out how to go about doing that. Maybe you have accalculia? Maybe you have math ld? It is not my place to say. At any rate, if you get an ld test done, you will be a can with a label. Do not worry about being a can, man. Labels are for cans and all of that. If your math skills are holding you back, then enroll at a community college after youj get your math ld testing. Take the results of the testing to the college and do some hard core time learning yourself some math. I am in the process of doing that now and I have a very mad wicked math ld of the first magnitude. Be stoic and tough it out. If you already have a trade, then you totally have one over me! Learn what you need of math to get ahead and do not let anyone or anything stand in your way. My own math tutor thinks I am a lost cause and I tell her to go the heck and teach me some math. Math ld is like a mystery because there havent really been a lot of hard core studies done on it and we live in the ADD age, you know? I am not trying to put down anyone with ADD, but there are more studies done on that then math with regards to psych stuff and whatnot. Stay strong, and maybe go to an Adult Ed program and learn yourself some math, man. It is never to late to do such a thing. I am 29 and just now get to go back to University and I have a 7th grade math level. No one knows what to make of me where I go to school becuase I do English at graduate level, and history and soanish like it was nothing, but I cannot read of numbers or do that abstract kind of thinking. I do not let it stop me becuase you only have the one life to live, you know? Think about what I am typing here, man. You can e mail me or whatever, if you so choose. Remember what Elenor Roosevelt said “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” I am sorry for being a piss poor typest but I have nothing in the way of visual motor type skills really, dude, so I am sorry.

From: Joe Tag, Elizabeth, NJ

I have to inform you, that in life, there are several numbers you
have to remember, that will help you. These include your
Social Security Number, a PIN to a bank Checking Account, a PIN to a telephone calling-card, your home phone numbers and maybe one relatives phone number.

As far as Math, I have passed High School Math (to Geometry) but
have failed passing college algebra (Math 1051 / Math 1000 ).
I know times tables, and factoring; and averaging.
Writing down math homework was a major problem.

My Math 1000 textbook was Intermediate Algebra, by
Wright and New; and came with 2 computer CD’s.
I did not discard it or CD’s. I will teach myself.

Another text was Beginning Algebra (blue cover)
by Lial and Hornsby; Addison-Wesley publishers.

Best of luck. I am 41 yrs. old.

/signed/ Joe Tag . ( FOR LD DISCUSSION, ONLY : [email protected] )

[quote=”ScareCrow”]Im 47. there was no LD resources at any schools I went to.
I have a problem remembering numbers. I carry my phone number and PIN number in my wallet and have to read them EVERY time I need to use those numbers. my PIN gets used every day. I remember in grade school when we were supposed to memorize the multiplication tables I couldn’t and from that point on I flunked math every year and they just kept passing me on to the next grade level.
anyway. all these years the lack of math skills has slowed me down. I was wondering if anybody knew of an alternative math system that didn’t require memorization of numbers.
please let me know of any such books.
thank you[/quote]

Hi, in every bank in my country, you can get a word as a PIN instead of the number… Then you have 2 go into the bank and get the money, but you have 2 do that anyway if you can’t remember the PIN :-)

Ask your bank :)