I was standing at the blackboard in front of the class. I've always been flaky on multiplication tables for some reason, and doing arithmetic in my head isn't m

I was standing at the blackboard in front of the class. I've always been flaky on multiplication tables for some reason, and doing arithmetic in my head isn't my strongest suit. That said I excelled in math throughout high school and college. It just goes to show that elementary math really has no bearing on the type of mindset one may have for "more complex", logic based math and computation. Trust me -- since that experience of being humiliated in front of the best students in the math department at my college, I haven't forgotten what 9 times 7 is.