• @[email protected]
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    15523 days ago

    Can we stop making every little thing about ADHD? This is just a common way to do arithmetic

    • @[email protected]
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      1323 days ago

      Adding up to 10, like the other comment explains, is the common way. Using 14 as intermediate step suggests a different way of thinking. OP could be on to something if that’s normal to you.

      7 + 6 = 10 + 3 = 13

      • @[email protected]
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        1423 days ago

        Some people have 7+6 = 13 memorized.

        Some do 1+6+6 = 1+12 = 13.

        Some use offsets from 5, like 5+1+5+2 = 2*5 + 3 = 13

        Hell I’m sure somebody did it like 10 - 4 + 10 - 3 = 20 - 7 = 10 + 10 - 7 = 10 + 3 = 13

        • @[email protected]
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          123 days ago

          Now determine the correlation between the various methods and adhd. My guess is that people with adhd are more likely to use the more exotic methods.

            • @[email protected]
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              422 days ago

              Indeed. The important part are the experiments to determine the correlations. Without those every opinion about OP’s hypothesis in this post is as useless as my guess.

            • @[email protected]
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              122 days ago

              I am wondering about the downvotes. You mean it is offensive to assume that something is different? Thank you for that feedback. I would have never guessed.

              • @[email protected]
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                622 days ago

                I think people just aren’t on board with your guess, and don’t want to assign every behavior’s root cause to having ADHD

    • Owl
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      623 days ago

      Yeah, kinda annoying

      Btw this might break rule 1, sincerely idk

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    The way I do it:

    6+6 = 12 +1 = 13

    Dunno how relevant calculating is to ADHD, but it is fun to see how people calculate things in their heads in different ways.

  • @[email protected]
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    2422 days ago

    Is this not just how people do simple math? Why the hell else did they make us just memorize multiplication tables?

    • @[email protected]
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      In elementary school my son would not memorize addition and multiplication and just use strategies like this.

      That became a problem later on as we just can handle a finite number of intermediary results in our brain, so just memorizing the tables reduces a lot of mental load for calculation in your brain.

      Another thing that helped him a lot was just writing down intermediaries on a piece of paper.

      Btw it was a bit similar for me, I just got the table memorized perfectly and got faster doing simple calculations in my mind than using a calculator when I was training the multiplication and addition tables with my son.

    • @[email protected]
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      222 days ago

      three of the six falls into the gap between the 7 and 10, leaving 3 sticking out the top = 13.

      I have no idea if this is normal or not

  • Dyskolos
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    1123 days ago

    ADHD? I thought I was just as dumb as some mid-sized pebble.

    • RejZoR
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      Same. I optimize numbers to nicer rounder values and then add on those. 7+6=7+3 to make nice round 10 and then add whatever remains to that, so 10+3=13. I don’t know why, it just makes sense.

    • @[email protected]
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      1023 days ago

      I’m 40 years old, and that’s how I was taught. We were quizzed up to 12x12, and that’s way too many products to handle with just rote memorization.

  • @[email protected]
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    1122 days ago

    I would actually step to 10 first by going (7+3)+(6-3)

    Steal some from the 6 to make the 7 round up to 10, then ad the remainder to 10.

  • @[email protected]
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    1523 days ago

    everything calculated in my head is just various examples of this daisy chained together

  • @[email protected]
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    6923 days ago

    I don’t think this has anything to do with ADHD, it’s just a little shortcut you can use when doing math in your head. I was taught techniques like this in school when we learnt addition and subtraction etc.

    • magic_lobster_party
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      It’s also a good way to double check your answers. If you can reach to the same conclusion through different processes, then it’s probably the right answer.

  • @[email protected]
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    823 days ago

    Six is two threes and seven plus three is ten so then we have the leftover three and add that to get thirteen.

    Also, not everything is ADHD.

  • @[email protected]
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    1323 days ago

    The way i calculate this, is knowing that 7 is 10-3, and 6 is 3+3.

    So, 7 + 6 = 10 + 3 = 13

    • @[email protected]
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      323 days ago

      Kinda the same.

      I need 3 to get to 10 from 7. After that just ad the rest (6-3). Resulting in 13.