I don’t know why, but I love math jokes. I laughed at all the math jokes in Futurama, even though they were written by PhD math geeks and even my husband (who has been known to do math in his sleep. For real) didn’t get most of them. Maybe it’s that whole thing where humor [...]
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I haven’t been posting a lot lately. Partly this is because of the amount of time I’ve had to spend reading job listings, filling out applications, tweaking resumes, and trying to write cover letters that aren’t don’t sound like total BS. Partly, it’s because I’ve just been too depressed. I feel like if I write about [...] At the moment, I’m in the middle of an application process for a public sector job. In spite of the fact that this is work I’ve done before, and work I’m eminently qualified to do, I might lose out on it for stupid bureaucratic reasons. Like a lot of public sector jobs, this one requires applicants [...] So I’m working on this art project, right, and I’m going to be applying these 1.5 inch decorative leaves to a certain space that’s 7 inches wide. I’m trying to figure out how many leaves I’ll need to cover the space. And I was sitting there, trying to figure out how to solve this problem. Multiplication? [...] Over at the dyscalculia forum, we’re all pretty bad at math. That goes without saying. If we could do math we wouldn’t have dyscalculia. QED. But there are a lot of non-math problems that tend to accompany dyscalculia. We have trouble conceptualizing time, reading maps, dancing, remembering sports plays, learning to read music, [...] Dyscalculics are no good with numbers. That’s pretty much the definition of dyscalculia. But in addition to having extreme difficulty with math, and all the accounting problems implied therein, we also tend to have larger troubles with the world of finance. We’re prone to “short term, not long term” financial thinking, and we “fail to [...] So, I’m trying to do business with a place that’s only open by appointment. Fine. They have a phone number, so I call it. I’m hoping to make an appointment for the following day, which is a Sunday, to avoid Bay Bridge traffic on a weekday. I figure 24 hours notice should be plenty, if [...] This has been sitting in my editing box for more than a month now. Since it’s Dyscalculia Awareness Month, I figured it’s only appropriate that I dust it off and publish it. Awhile back I wrote about a painful muscle strain I’d developed in my shoulder and neck area. Like many dyscalculics, I have a poor [...] Over at the Dyscalculia Forum, we got to talking about World Dyscalculia Day. World Dyscalculia Day, which falls on March 3rd (3/3, so we don’t get confused) has been a great thing — since 2008, people have made videos, written articles, created t-shirts, and gotten the word out to their local schools, districts, and universities [...] Having decided that a single day is not enough to get the word out about dysclaculia, some of us at the dyscalculia forum have decided to declare March to be Dyscalclulia Awareness Month. This will allow more flexibility for staging events, especially for students at college or university, since some of them are already on [...] |
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