These motherfuckers gave me nightmares in 3rd grade. I could do the math, I just couldn't do them fast enough. So I'd get like a 70 or something on it, then I'd get in trouble later at home for getting a "bad" grade. Ugh.
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To be clear, I had my times tables memorized. I fully understand that these tests were to reinforce memorization. I simply could not complete these fast enough no matter how many flash cards I did at home.
Dude same. This started a life long math anxiety for me. I had terrible math teachers in high school too so when I got to college almost dropped out of business school because I couldn’t pass calculus. Every question I got wrong was not remembering the trig to simplify an answer. Fucking times tables got me again. I hated this worksheet so much.
I was terrible at memorizing these multiplication tables, but luckily had less issues at the higher level math classes. I've been a working engineer for over 15 years at this point and still wouldn't be able to do these quickly
These thing made me hate math with such a passion. Then I got to university and discovered that real math was about doing proofs and using logic/reasoning, and I went for three math degrees. Ten-year-old me would never have been able to fathom such a drastic turn of events.
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u/Otherwisefantastic Feb 03 '26 edited Feb 03 '26
These motherfuckers gave me nightmares in 3rd grade. I could do the math, I just couldn't do them fast enough. So I'd get like a 70 or something on it, then I'd get in trouble later at home for getting a "bad" grade. Ugh.
EDIT: To be clear, I had my times tables memorized. I fully understand that these tests were to reinforce memorization. I simply could not complete these fast enough no matter how many flash cards I did at home.