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Jan21

SOCS & Just Jot It January

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SOCS & Just Jot It January

 

 

The Friday Reminder for #SoCS & #JusJoJan 2023 Daily Prompt – Jan. 21st

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Your prompt for #JusJoJan the 21st and Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: “count on it.” Use the phrase “count on it” somewhere in your post. Enjoy!

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I can count on it that I can never ‘count it’ right. I’ve written about my having Discalculia, which is a type of blindness to math, numbers, and things like that. That post is here

Now, what else … oh, I can count on it that I will bump into something and knock it down. This happens when I’m walking around, and happens when I’m just sitting and reaching for something and my hand will bump into something knocking it down, or over.

I can count on it that I’ll be here at my computer reading and typing every day.

I can count on it that I’ll be reading an actual book during part of the day and evening.

I can count on it that I’ll be texting on my phone with both my daughters at some point during the day.

And, that’s about all the counting I want to do for now. Hope you have a lovely weekend! ❤

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Apr15

A to Z BLOG CHALLENGE…APRIL 15, 2014…LETTER M

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A to Z BLOG CHALLENGE

Today’s letter is…………..M

Thank you for visiting! Comments welcome! Happy reading!

MATH BLINDNESS

Math blindness, also called discalculia, is a learning disability, in which the person has difficulty in comprehending numbers and anything math related.  It is seen as a developmental disorder, like dyslexia is with letters, reading, and writing.

A few everyday ways of doing things that are difficult for one who has math blindness, besides in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, and any higher mathmatics, are in the areas of…

  • telling/estimating time
  • reading maps
  • estimating distances
  • measurements
  • directions
  • scheduling
  • balancing a checkbook

Other problem areas that make it hard for the person with math blindness are in remembering names, they can be chronically late, have trouble filtering out distractions, being disoriented, losing things, and being absent-minded.

It has been documented also, that there is at least one skill the person is usually excellent at, and that is writing skills.

This learning disability can he hereditary or acquired. There are a few tests you can take to determine if you have it, but I’m sure most people already know that they do, just from living with the symptoms. I know I do.

I’ve had problems with all of these, from an early age. I can do simple math…sometimes. Even so, I mess it up nine times out of ten, and have no idea that I did it, or why, or how to fix it. Say something that involves numbers to me, and I kind of blank out…it’s just gibberish. I barely got by in math classes at school, and in high school I had to take remedial math in order to graduate, and barely made it through that. I even got fired from a job once, because I had to add up orders on a calculator -no less- and couldn’t enter the numbers correctly…kept transposing or omitting, so nothing ever came out right.

But, hey, I can write! That, as they say, is the silver lining to the gray cloud, in my view of things.

If you’d like to learn more about math blindness/discalculia, here is a link. http://www.learninginfo.org/dyscalculia.htm

Thanks for reading! If you’d like to, visit my other blog for the entry on the letter M. Here is a link  http://ghostmmnc.blogspot.com