https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:51:25 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-good-at-arithmetic#post-775284 Sat, 11 May 2013 14:29:34 +0000 808love 775284@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm pretty comfortable with basic operations and estimating. Not calculus or anything. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-good-at-arithmetic#post-774991 Sat, 11 May 2013 09:48:51 +0000 Mrs. Pickle 774991@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm pretty good at it. Division is the hardest thing for me to do in my head. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-good-at-arithmetic#post-774936 Sat, 11 May 2013 08:58:10 +0000 chopsuey 774936@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm a math whiz </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-good-at-arithmetic#post-774912 Sat, 11 May 2013 08:34:15 +0000 Corduroy 774912@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm terrible. My school didn't teach it. It was all about math concept and geometry and things like that. We were always allowed to use calculators from 1st grade.</p> <p>I don't know if my elementary math education helped me or hurt me. I made it through two years of math in college. But if someone asks for a quick estimation on something in a meeting I freeze up. There is nothing happening in my head. I'm really embarrassed by it especially as a woman and a 'scientist'. However, I can rock a calculator! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-good-at-arithmetic#post-774840 Sat, 11 May 2013 07:18:55 +0000 Mrs. Sunglasses 774840@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>i hate it all. math is definitely not my forte. in any form. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-good-at-arithmetic#post-774784 Sat, 11 May 2013 06:11:47 +0000 mrbee 774784@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I enjoy math, but I am terrible at arithmetic!! So embarrassing... but if I have to carry the one in my head when I'm adding two numbers, then I have to really slow down and think it through.</p> <p>I also suck at multiplying numbers by big numbers like say, 10,000. If I have to multiple 5,432 x 20,000... I have to break it down just to figure it out. So I'll do like 5x20 and then 1,000 x 1,000 and then count up all the zeros to make sure I got it right. Then I'll break out a calculator anyway, just to check my work.</p> <p>Anyway to compensate for my sad maths skills, I learned a bunch of tricks and memorized a bunch of times tables... so most of the time, I can fool people. But now you know of my shame. If they ever come out with a floating point math coprocessor that you can install in your head, then I am definitely putting that chip in my brain... I don't care if I set off every metal detector for the rest of time!</p> <p>Anyway are you good at arithmetic? Adding, subtracting, multiplying... can you do it all in your head? </p>