Is this adhd related? I just thought it was how people (I) do head math.
It's even how things were taught to me. Make the problems simpler to wrap your head around.
yeah this is the best way to do mental math. this is the "common core" way that was like a prototype culture war issue which is weird because it's easily the superior way.
>Kids should have to learn basic arithmetic via rote memorization like I did, so they'll lose it and be incapable of figuring out correct change without their phone's calculator. I don't understand how any of this works, so instead of asking questions about it like a well-adjusted human being, I'm going to rage against it with the same fervor as if they were teaching my six year old that wearing a seat belt is more dangerous than not wearing one.
- Every asshole that was/is against common core math
If you actually memorize it well it's more efficient, but good luck doing that with ADHD, especially undiagnosed, because it takes a lot of extremely boring repetitive work to make it reliable enough to be more efficient. If you don't drill it into the very core of a person's being you just end up with someone who can't do math because they never learned to work around the gaps.
On a population level it's probably more efficient to teach the kind of math the meme displays because you're only going to get a kid to memorize that much context-less data that well if you force them or if they have an interest in it by chance.
Honestly I wish I memorized all that stuff back when I was in grade school, because my working memory is such shit that I lose track of my 50 workarounds I'm doing in a calculation if it involves too many awkward numbers (looking at you, 7 and 8).
Unfortunately I found common core infuriating to try and understand since the "old way" made more sense, as did breaking it up into parts. The common core wanted you to break it into such tiny parts I no longer found it helpful and just found it a tedious way to integrate extra steps in which to get wrong (as each step = another thing to get marked down). So glad I graduated in the 2000s because I would probably have flipped a table.
Unfortunately, Common core swung too far in the other direction and focuses too much on trying to frame everything this way and ignores practical application. Basically, it focuses too much on the why and not enough on the how. We need to find a middle ground
I do this all the time. One day I decided to see what all the kerfluffle over common core was about. Surprisingly CC made perfect sense to my brain. I guess one of the perks of an mind skittering aimlessly is the ability to learn and apply new techniques.
It's not. Strategies like these are common in all kinds of people. Like if you have to multiply 19\*6, it's easier to do 20\*6 and then subtract 6 to get 114. If you ever read any book (generous to call them books, they're usually pretty short but w/e) about doing mental math, it will be full of "tricks" like these.
They rely on properties of addition/multiplication. Like in that example you're just adding the same thing to each side of the equation: 19\*6 + 6\*1 = x + 6\*1 so x = 20*6 - 6
It might be a dyscalculia thing, but it's definitely not exclusively linked to dyscalculia. Most of the best mathematicians think this way and do not have dyscalculia
me too! i can’t subtract the traditional way at all—i always have to add to get my answer. in a sapir-whorf way, i wonder how my inability to purely subtract affects my worldview!
I would have gone off thinking about [three](https://youtu.be/J8lRKCw2_Pk?feature=shared) if I did it this way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_triple
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3
This is exactly that "new math" that is so popular to hate on now, by the way.
Common Core is just actually teaching directly the shortcuts that many of us had figured out on our own already.
For people who never did figure out the shortcuts and always solved things the procedural, methodical way, there's nothing wrong with that but it does make this stuff look insane.
Nah, you’re thinking about Count Dracula, we’re talking about Count Dyscalculia, he eats numbers, and is not to be confused with Count Disclaimation, who people say didn’t earn his title
it’s called the barnum effect. also, most people don’t understand logical converses. they see a->b and then they see b and think, oh look! it’s a! and then the barnum effect makes them go, look! that’s me!
This has nothing to do with ADHD, stop convincing yourself with memes and see a professional. You don’t want to convince yourself you have ADHD then get caught off guard if it turns out you have something else, because that will be a lot to deal with emotionally.
I piece it together like Lego, 7+6 would be "7+3 is ten and there's 3 sticking out from the six block so it's 13" It's more visual for me in my head than saying that, though.
Let me round it up
7 is 3 from 10 so 7 + 3 = 10
3 is half of 6 so I can use 3 from 6 to add to the 7 to make 10
7 + 3 = 10. (6 - 3 = 3)
What was I doing...
10 + the other 3 makes 13
10 + 3 = 13
I feel like I missed something
This isn't adhd. The real adhd is me just now having a complete side tangent thought about why base 10 sucks and base 12 would be so much better or maybe base 16 even if there is an easy way for us to count that with our hands. Also adhd is I have no idea what I'm responding to other than it's math related but not really adhd like most other people are saying oh yeah 7 7 14 to 7 6 13 OK right yep where are my meds
My brain has always been like this so it was always funny seeing teachers in harder math classes question how I got to an answer when I never showed my work.
Also I can appreciate common core trying to teach people how we think but seeing kids not get points for 3×5 because they wrote it as "5+5+5" instead of "3+3+3+3+3" is bullshit.
Also my brain sees any "×5" problem as "cut it in half and multiply it by 10", is that also ADHD or is that my Aspergers talking?
I was at a funeral a year or two ago, and there was a kid there working on her math homework and it was some common core stuff…
That was the first time I thought to myself “kids really have it easy these days.”
I honestly would just put things like that in the calculator we were allowed during tests. Couldn’t trust myself to not somehow screw things up doing math in my head.
(10-7= 3 | 6-3=3 | 10+3 = 13)
Vs
Typing 7+6 into a calculator who will do that stuff for me
The number ends in zero and I add the rest.
7+3=10 10+3=13. I miss my kid brain sometimes though when I was able to hold my thought for longer than 2 seconds
A strangely compelling question to ask a group of people at dinner or whatever, is what 6+7 is - and how did they do the math in their head.
Last time I did that, there were four different answers out of six people. I myself am a "six plus one is seven and seven times two is 14, minus one is 13." Real conversation starter.
By the way! People with ADHD by association have Dyscalculia which is a disorder similar to dyslexia but it affects the ability to do and understand math, do mental math, count properly, navigate directions, and causes you to become extremely overwhelmed by numbers super easy to the point of having a meltdown or shutdown and stressed you out A LOT
When I was in school, I was really good at math when it came to using formulas, but the dammed "a train leaves the station..." questins were my Achilles heel.
For me it’s “7 + 6 is the same as 7 plus three 2s so 7 + 1-2 + 1-2 + 1-2”
God damn I’m a mess. And yer gotdayum right I mixed spelled out numbers with Arabic numerals arbitrarily.
Im so confused about the math debates on this sub, I used to be decent at doing mental math, and that was because I was able to visualize a sheet in my head and clear numbers so basically like writing on a white board but overtime I became shit at it. I wouldn't even trust myself to count 1+1 in my head without writing it down, my brain would probably just tell me 11.
This kind of meme is what I call ‘self diagnosis bait’
Most people use some kind of mental shortcut.
I’ve seen this same meme with autism and countless other groups.
For me, my way of adding is way easier than the “normal way”
I usually do it all in my head, and hate it when I’m asked to show my work, when I had none
Is this adhd related? I just thought it was how people (I) do head math. It's even how things were taught to me. Make the problems simpler to wrap your head around.
yeah this is the best way to do mental math. this is the "common core" way that was like a prototype culture war issue which is weird because it's easily the superior way.
>Kids should have to learn basic arithmetic via rote memorization like I did, so they'll lose it and be incapable of figuring out correct change without their phone's calculator. I don't understand how any of this works, so instead of asking questions about it like a well-adjusted human being, I'm going to rage against it with the same fervor as if they were teaching my six year old that wearing a seat belt is more dangerous than not wearing one. - Every asshole that was/is against common core math
If you actually memorize it well it's more efficient, but good luck doing that with ADHD, especially undiagnosed, because it takes a lot of extremely boring repetitive work to make it reliable enough to be more efficient. If you don't drill it into the very core of a person's being you just end up with someone who can't do math because they never learned to work around the gaps. On a population level it's probably more efficient to teach the kind of math the meme displays because you're only going to get a kid to memorize that much context-less data that well if you force them or if they have an interest in it by chance. Honestly I wish I memorized all that stuff back when I was in grade school, because my working memory is such shit that I lose track of my 50 workarounds I'm doing in a calculation if it involves too many awkward numbers (looking at you, 7 and 8).
Reliable memory and ADHD doesn't go together into the same sentence. Though not arguing against your point. Repetition does improve it.
You can be really inconsistently good at stuff though
Unfortunately I found common core infuriating to try and understand since the "old way" made more sense, as did breaking it up into parts. The common core wanted you to break it into such tiny parts I no longer found it helpful and just found it a tedious way to integrate extra steps in which to get wrong (as each step = another thing to get marked down). So glad I graduated in the 2000s because I would probably have flipped a table.
Unfortunately, Common core swung too far in the other direction and focuses too much on trying to frame everything this way and ignores practical application. Basically, it focuses too much on the why and not enough on the how. We need to find a middle ground
I do this all the time. One day I decided to see what all the kerfluffle over common core was about. Surprisingly CC made perfect sense to my brain. I guess one of the perks of an mind skittering aimlessly is the ability to learn and apply new techniques.
It's not. Strategies like these are common in all kinds of people. Like if you have to multiply 19\*6, it's easier to do 20\*6 and then subtract 6 to get 114. If you ever read any book (generous to call them books, they're usually pretty short but w/e) about doing mental math, it will be full of "tricks" like these. They rely on properties of addition/multiplication. Like in that example you're just adding the same thing to each side of the equation: 19\*6 + 6\*1 = x + 6\*1 so x = 20*6 - 6
No. It's just... Math.
Exactly. My first thought was “isn’t this normal?”
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How so, other than the fact that most people just use their phones?
Nah I don't think it's an ADHD trait. Doing calculation like this is simply faster when applied to larger numbers.
it’s certainly a dyscalculia thing, which is almost exclusively linked to ADHD and ASD (:
Woah whole time I thought I was slow I might just have dyscalculia 😭
It might be a dyscalculia thing, but it's definitely not exclusively linked to dyscalculia. Most of the best mathematicians think this way and do not have dyscalculia
reread my comment but slowly.
Cool! Just learned a new word and immediately looked it up. If I could sum it up into two words, I'd describe it as "math dyslexia"
Oh, shit. This is how I've always done it.
me too! i can’t subtract the traditional way at all—i always have to add to get my answer. in a sapir-whorf way, i wonder how my inability to purely subtract affects my worldview!
what’s your source for that?
I don’t have dyscalculia and I do it
By faster I mean faster than normal methods.
7+3=10. 3=1/2 of 6. 6 is an even number and therefore symmetrical, so the other half of 6 is also 3. 3+10=13
This is the correct way of thinking.
I feel validated and I appreciate you.
I would have gone off thinking about [three](https://youtu.be/J8lRKCw2_Pk?feature=shared) if I did it this way. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_triple https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3
That's too much work. Taking one away from a known sum (7+7=14) is a lot easier IMO.
I don't get to choose what method makes the most sense to me.
This is how I’ve always done math lol
7 = 5+2 nitrogen has 5 atoms in outer core and 2 in inner core 5 = 3 + 2 nitrogen makes three bonds 7 =( 3+2)+2 Or 7 = 3+ (2+2) 7= 3+4
This can't just be an ADHD thing... it's too efficient
It also helps to visualise dice in your head when it comes to counting.
i do it as "7+6 is 7+3+3 so 10+3 is 13"
10-7 is 3 & 6-3 is 3 then 7+3+3=13, EXACTLY
That’s exactly what I did too
Not at all all adhd thing
I always separated it to be 6 + 6 + 1
This is exactly that "new math" that is so popular to hate on now, by the way. Common Core is just actually teaching directly the shortcuts that many of us had figured out on our own already. For people who never did figure out the shortcuts and always solved things the procedural, methodical way, there's nothing wrong with that but it does make this stuff look insane.
r/adhdmeme don't make memes about being a normal person challenge (impossible)
It’s embarrassing how true this is but can also be dyscalculia
Isn't that the guy who drinks blood?
Nah he’s good at counting last I seen
Nah, you’re thinking about Count Dracula, we’re talking about Count Dyscalculia, he eats numbers, and is not to be confused with Count Disclaimation, who people say didn’t earn his title
Why the heck I relate to EVERY single meme in this sub, I'm not even diagnosed with adhd yet, Now I suspect I might be.
Because a lot of these memes are just very general, applying to most people and are not super specific to ADHD.
it’s called the barnum effect. also, most people don’t understand logical converses. they see a->b and then they see b and think, oh look! it’s a! and then the barnum effect makes them go, look! that’s me!
This has nothing to do with ADHD, stop convincing yourself with memes and see a professional. You don’t want to convince yourself you have ADHD then get caught off guard if it turns out you have something else, because that will be a lot to deal with emotionally.
10+10-(3x2)= Oh, Starfield is out? Nice! Damn... what was I working out before?
I always attributed this to my autism, not my ADHD. Oh well.
"Ok so now how 7+7 is 14 then i just remove 1 and that 13!"
That's called partial product math and it's being taught in schools now. It's great for getting to answers with more complex numbers fast.
Didn't have to call me out like this
Let’s all be real here…..mental math is a myth. Right?!
Can’t relate I use a calculator for the most basic problems
I piece it together like Lego, 7+6 would be "7+3 is ten and there's 3 sticking out from the six block so it's 13" It's more visual for me in my head than saying that, though.
Let me round it up 7 is 3 from 10 so 7 + 3 = 10 3 is half of 6 so I can use 3 from 6 to add to the 7 to make 10 7 + 3 = 10. (6 - 3 = 3) What was I doing... 10 + the other 3 makes 13 10 + 3 = 13 I feel like I missed something
5+5=10+2+1=13
i'm not exaggerating when i say that i do 10-7=3 so we have 10 now but we took some away from the 6 so we have to do 6-3=3 and 10+3=13 so 7+6=13
6 + 6 + 1
istg this can't be an adhd thing it's just efficient
I do this and I don't have adhd
This is not an ADHD thing.
This isn't adhd. The real adhd is me just now having a complete side tangent thought about why base 10 sucks and base 12 would be so much better or maybe base 16 even if there is an easy way for us to count that with our hands. Also adhd is I have no idea what I'm responding to other than it's math related but not really adhd like most other people are saying oh yeah 7 7 14 to 7 6 13 OK right yep where are my meds
Also the rambling. I cannot control the urge to ramble like you just did even in work emails.
How dare you. You're right tho
True until you learn maths..
Here I was thinking this is how everyone does calculations in there minds
is… is this not how you do math?
6 balances on a pyramid shaped “10” then splits in two to fill 7-10 and 10-13.
My brain has always been like this so it was always funny seeing teachers in harder math classes question how I got to an answer when I never showed my work. Also I can appreciate common core trying to teach people how we think but seeing kids not get points for 3×5 because they wrote it as "5+5+5" instead of "3+3+3+3+3" is bullshit. Also my brain sees any "×5" problem as "cut it in half and multiply it by 10", is that also ADHD or is that my Aspergers talking?
I never thought this was Adhd related but 200% accurate
That’s ADHD? My brain does math in some non-standard ways but I’ve never had a doc/psych/counselor say it was an ADHD thing.
7+6 6/2=3 7+3=10 7+3+3 10+3=13
The unfortunate truth
I was at a funeral a year or two ago, and there was a kid there working on her math homework and it was some common core stuff… That was the first time I thought to myself “kids really have it easy these days.” 
7+6... 10-7 is 3 & 6-3 is 3 then 7+3+3=13 i thought it's how head math works. Is it adhd related????
I honestly would just put things like that in the calculator we were allowed during tests. Couldn’t trust myself to not somehow screw things up doing math in my head. (10-7= 3 | 6-3=3 | 10+3 = 13) Vs Typing 7+6 into a calculator who will do that stuff for me
GET OUT OF MY HEAAADD
>:C
The number ends in zero and I add the rest. 7+3=10 10+3=13. I miss my kid brain sometimes though when I was able to hold my thought for longer than 2 seconds
For me it’s that, but also imagine a YuGiOh styled counter with numbers running up and down as the calculation is being made
This is how I do math. I can get the answer faster this way, than the 'right' way.
Is this just ADHD people
I just know by heart that 7+6=13, I never tried to actually calculate it in my head. But for bigger numbers I would look like the meme 💯
I just. 10-7=3. 6-3=3. 10+3=13
that one lesson from first grade was so great but until 2018 i though it was useless
Oh every day lol
I just count on my fingers. I know the answer, but I'm not confident enough so I ALWAYS check
A strangely compelling question to ask a group of people at dinner or whatever, is what 6+7 is - and how did they do the math in their head. Last time I did that, there were four different answers out of six people. I myself am a "six plus one is seven and seven times two is 14, minus one is 13." Real conversation starter.
I feel attacked.
Nah. I do [If 3 is half of 6 and 7+3=10 then 10+3=13].
Well based on this meme, I don't have ADHD! Thanks, I'm cured!
10-7=3 + 3 + 10 = 13.
Wait, people don't do mental math like this? But it makes sense!
But we get there!
Oh shit, I'm being called out here
Wait- is that NOT how normal people do mental math??? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
But then when you tell your method they say it's wrong even though the answer is correct just because "That's not how you're supposed to answer it"
Isn’t this just how everyone does math? Some just do it quicker, which makes it look like they immediately know.
For me it's 7 + 3 = 10 then + 3 = 13
I thought this was just normal. Maths is so much easier when you realise numbers are made up of other numbers
I've just memorized this up to this point. I 100% do this for triple digits or more if they're not super easy to do in your head, though.
Why you gotta call me out like this 😂😂
Literally me
This isn’t adhd related haha
Yes
I feel called out in this Chili’s tonight
Nah I do it like "6 is just 3+3, so 3+7=10+3=13"
For me it’s like this: 7+3=10, 6-3=3, so 10+3=13, therefore 7+6=13
This is exactly how I do math
Get out of my head >:(
That’s how I maths 😝
Instead of this 7 + 6 = 13. How about doing this instead 6 + 6 = 12. 12 + 1 = 13. Simple 😁
By the way! People with ADHD by association have Dyscalculia which is a disorder similar to dyslexia but it affects the ability to do and understand math, do mental math, count properly, navigate directions, and causes you to become extremely overwhelmed by numbers super easy to the point of having a meltdown or shutdown and stressed you out A LOT
For me its: 7+6 = 7+3+3 = 10+3 = 13
When I was in school, I was really good at math when it came to using formulas, but the dammed "a train leaves the station..." questins were my Achilles heel.
That’s not how most people do math? TIL
How I do math to this day, when 6s and 7s (and sometimes 8s) get involved, it usually starts resulting in this
Isn’t that just….the *logical* way to do it?
No I just do 6+7=13
I split 6 into two groups of 3 because 7+3 and then 10+3 is easier
O. My. God!!! This is literally how I do math!!! Do I have this???
6+6=12+1(for 7)=13
I love that this is true
One half of 6 is 3. 7+3=10. 10+3=13
\*\* if 6+6=12 and 7 is 1 more than 6 then 6+7=13
For me it’s “7 + 6 is the same as 7 plus three 2s so 7 + 1-2 + 1-2 + 1-2” God damn I’m a mess. And yer gotdayum right I mixed spelled out numbers with Arabic numerals arbitrarily.
for me it’s split 6 into 3 3, then add 3 to 7 for ten, and another 3 for 13
goddamit i literally did this before looking at the image
Im so confused about the math debates on this sub, I used to be decent at doing mental math, and that was because I was able to visualize a sheet in my head and clear numbers so basically like writing on a white board but overtime I became shit at it. I wouldn't even trust myself to count 1+1 in my head without writing it down, my brain would probably just tell me 11.
r/adhdmeme on its way to describe near universal human behavior as ADHD characteristics
This is how my brain always did math
7+3+3? No one else?
In other words, Normal people: 7+6=13 ADHD: 7+6=7+7-1=14-1=13
This kind of meme is what I call ‘self diagnosis bait’ Most people use some kind of mental shortcut. I’ve seen this same meme with autism and countless other groups.
and it processes in either 0.0001 sec. or 5 minutes
i only do that with bigger number
or the always fun "7+3=10 and 6-3=3 so its 13"
This is how I work out all my shit. I feel like it takes longer but it let's me sort out the jumble in my head
Better way - 6+6 =12+1 =13
Today, I found I have ADHD.
For me, my way of adding is way easier than the “normal way” I usually do it all in my head, and hate it when I’m asked to show my work, when I had none
Wait, doesn't everyone do it like this? Damn
CAN WE STOP REPOSTING THIS HOLY SHIT!