Originally Posted by cammom
Discovered last night that my DS6 can multiply in his head faster than I can. We were playing math games in the car amd had to slow down several times because I couldn't keep up. I'm not "bad" at math- spent nearly ten years writing and managing budgets in the 10s of millions.

I can multiply just fine and quickly...I can't multiply or do any kind of math thinking/manipulating while driving. Driving must use or shut down my math neurons. I will pass back my phone and tell them to use the calculator rather than try mental math while driving.

I also am horrible if I think everyone is looking at me and judging my mental math (which is just fine if I am sitting at a desk by myself)...put on the spot and my math computations shuts down....now put on the spot to explain a concept, no problem but 8+6 with 4 people looking at me, I want to crawl under a rock.

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