[Sca-cooks] Re: standard tests

[margali]

I'm an odd one - no cracks from the cheap seats!

I was talented in math until I was abused by my 4th grade math
teacher [I was punished for being from a different school system.
They learned stuff like multiplication and division in 3d grade,
we were going to learn it in 4th. I kept telling her I didn't
know how to do the problems, she kept punishing me for being rude
and not doing my school work. My mom caught her about half way
through the year. Not soon enough to associate math with
unpleasant results.] That left me with a real resistance to math.
Oddly enough, I have this bizzare ability to see patterns and
relationships, so I made it through advance placement chemistry
using a slide rule instead of a pocket calculator [the TI 30 was
the big thing back then ;-)] I ended up with geometry,
algebra/trig and physics in my senior year, so I could get the
math requirement to make it into university. I could handle the
drawing part of geometry, from so many years taking studio art,
but I couldn't prove a theorum to save my life!

And being dyslexic, I taught myself to compensate so that I
normally read at 2000 words per minute with 85% comprehension. I
can skim at upwards of 3k wpm. In 5th grade I killed the bell
curve by reading at a graduate school level. I got detention in
7th grade for telling the teacher that the text book was wrong,
and was reading the text that proved it. Wise ass my aunt fannie
;-) I just preferred accuracy.
margali

~~~~~the quote starts here:
> So? Not everyone can be an expert in everything. There
> are math whizzes who can't spell worth a damn.
>
> Alban

I'm married to one.  He does calculus for fun, the way some
people do
crosswords puzzles, but he misspells some of the simplest words.


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