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People who are bad with numbers often find it harder to make ends meet
- ogwh 5y agoIn other news: grass is green and the sky is blue, who knew?
- beermonster 5y agoPeople that cannot read, read fewer books!
- tomohawk 5y agoPerhaps instead of being snarky, get involved in creating tools and affordances for people who are disabled at math. We don't think twice about ensuring a wheelchair ramp is installed on a building.
- tomohawk 5y agoAside from the snark, what this is getting at is that there is this assumption that being good at math is a good proxy for intelligence and other things. It is not. Math is a skill that some people cannot learn, although they can often do well with a calculator or other aids. They have to be taught differently. With adequate training to work around this, they can do quite well. However, we are conditioned to think that people who cannot do math are dumb or lazy. Source: family member taught learning disabled children in schools for many years, until they signed on to the ideology that all children are the same and should be taught the same.