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To: kimberley who wrote (57017)	4/18/2022 12:12:16 PM
From: Clam digger	1 Recommendation Recommended By kimberley Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 98688

Fascinating! I was bored in the 7th grade so I was assigned advanced math, (short of calculus) and loved it but could always do advanced math in my head for whatever reason. Rote memorization always came easily.

To: kimberley who wrote (57017)	4/18/2022 12:17:28 PM
From: ajtj99	2 Recommendations Recommended By Clam digger Lee Lichterman III Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 98688

When I was in high school, I really hated the math teachers who took off points for not showing your work. That's about the time I realized teachers were B-students in high school and college. I really admire math savants like you. That's a special talent. While I may sometimes multiply two 3-digit numbers in my head to keep my cognitive functions fresh, I am in awe of those for whom high level math is simple.

To: kimberley who wrote (57017)	4/19/2022 10:16:50 PM
From: LoveAG	2 Recommendations Recommended By ajtj99 kimberley Respond to of 98688

ohmigosh Kimberly so glad u told that story i got accused of cheating on a calc exam, for one problem of the problems I just skipped the steps in my head and came to the answer, they thot I cheated too. So then made me take a similar exam with a proctor in the Math lab after hours and I repeated the process, thank goodness cuz i still have no idea how i did it then the same type of prob was on the final and i turned it in undone with a note saying I'd already done it twice and never went to another math class weird

To: kimberley who wrote (57017)	4/19/2022 10:38:57 PM
From: Sun Tzu	3 Recommendations Recommended By ajtj99 kimberley Lee Lichterman III Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 98688

A good teacher makes an inspirational impact on the student that can last a lifetime. Bad ones kill their motivations and hopes. When I was in grade 4 and 5 I knew the answer to math problems before the teacher was done reading it. But I didn't know how or what I did. I could go finish the entire exam in minutes by giving the perfect answer to every problem without writing a single line on paper. Needless to say the first time that I did that they gave me a terrible grade. My argument was that they only asked for the answer (what is X?) and never said "solve for X". But it didn't stick. I was never a fast writer; only a fast thinker. It got to a point that I'd write all the answers first, then I'd use my time to figure out how to arrive at that answer by manipulating the given numbers. When I got older, someone told me I could do that because somewhere in my head I was doing pattern matching/processing without realizing. By the time I was in grade 8, I was doing university level math just for the fun of it. Fast forward to my engineering physics exam. They didn't care about the solution. All the exams were multiple choice. They would solve the problem in 3 wrong ways (miss a negative sign, miss the final step, do a wrong operation) and would put those answers as the choices, plus the right answer and a very wrong answer. I scored in the top 3% in the country <g>. But my worst experiences were always with literature teachers. They'd never give you an A for your essays no matter how good you were. They expected you to be Hemingway or Arthur Miller. I think they'd probably scold Hemingway himself if he was taking their classes. There is a scene in Rodney Dangerfield's Back to School movie where he hires Arthur Miller to write his essay about an Arthur Miller play, and the teacher slams him by saying "Whoever wrote this didn't know the first thing about Arthur Miller!!" That scene stayed with me because I could really relate to it. PS My youngest is like that with math. She does 4 to 6 steps in one. I have to remind her that her work needs to be comprehendible by others and she needs to spell it out.