Adventures Of A Neurospicy City Boy: 4
When the Math's doesn’t math. Maths, oh how I hate maths! Just as letters move around, numbers also keep moving. This bit of my neurospicy is called dyscalculia. The whole concept of maths drives me crazy. Let's take 7 divided by 5. I’m supposed to somehow take two different numbers and split them to make one number, but that number somehow has bits leftover in a fraction. Now a fraction is 1 number on top and one below so in this example it’s two numbers, 2 and 5, and that’s still a 7, but it’s less than the 7 we used in the sum. If you say since it’s up and down, it’s different, but who decides to just push a number down, just because you feel like keeping one number on the top. This is not the right way to show how small the number is. Whoever invented numbers and fractions just couldn't accept that they were wrong, so they just created new numbers to make themselves right. They weren’t happy with regular numbers so they came up with fractions and decimals. Then they d...