Math Musings: One Trained Monkey, Bragging Rights, and a Rumor

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Because I have dyslexia, from the time I was in grade school, math was… hmmm, how shall I say it? FUCKING DIFFICULT! I went back to college in 2015 after 33 years of being in school. Something that I had always wanted to do but was too scared to try because of - you guessed it - FUCKING MATH!

Turns out, I didn’t even know enough to take beginning algebra 25 (required for my desired degree). I had to take a year of pre-algebra 15 in order to even qualify for the math classes I needed. And to add insult to injury, I had to pay for those classes, but they were so lowly they couldn’t even be used as credits towards my degree. Spoiler Alert - I did pass the math classes with B’s! I had to hire a tutor to do it, but I get ‘er done and I graduated in 2019. I’m still strutting with pride.

Here are three journal entries I wrote during that time:

  1. “I keep waiting for some epiphany to happen. I'm like a trained monkey. Show me how to do a math formula and I can do it correctly until the cows come home. But ask me the next week to do the same formula and I can't remember a thing. I know there must be hidden secrets buried in these formulas. I mean, that's how they build things like the Empire State Building or the Hoover Dam. Right? There's got to be a connection somewhere between my monkey trained antics and reality based skills. But as of today, I am still unable to build a dam. Damn.”

  2. (In regards to graduating from pre-algebra 15 to beginning algebra 25) “No more namby-pamby “Pre” stuff for me. I’m playing with the big boys now!”

  3. “Get this. If you divide a number by 0, the answer is “undefined.” I’m not shitting you. And the rumor I hear is, if you try and do it anyway, the world will end. So don’t.” 

     


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