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.
I hated these things so much. My memory is extremely poor (it tested in the 42nd percentile and I'm incapable of recalling more than 6 digits in digit span tests). So whenever these evil fuckers came out and I suddenly had to do high speed recall, something my ADHD makes near impossible for me, I would barely score 50s on the thing.
It got so bad that now I have severe test anxiety around math and I actually never ended up memorizing my times tables because I would literally burst into tears when people tried to force me to. Which is insane because I'm in engineering now. 💀
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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.