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What can help with innumeracy?

Asked by MakeItSo1701 (13818points) 5 hours ago

A lack of ability to understand and use numbers in calculations

I cannot, for the life of me understand math. I have done online lessons like Khan academy, I have had multiple one on one times with teachers, I was in math intervention. It takes me hours to do basic assignments.

I never did ordering when I was a manager because I couldn’t figure out the math despite 3 people explaining it, and I could never understand gross profit nonsense. Again, no matter how many times it is explained.

If you asked me what 26+8 is I would have to use my fingers.
This has been my whole life, so it is not the calculators fault.

I have an economics class coming up, and am stressing out. I know I can use my college’s help center, but that has never helped me in the past. Nothing clicks for me and everyone just gets frustrated.

I want to reach out to the teacher, but I don’t know how. I feel he will tell me to just use the schools help center. I am also just embarassed to be 24 and incapable of math. I mean seriously, I struggled counting change until my cashiering job at 21, and it took me a few months.

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