Can we stop making every little thing about ADHD? This is just a common way to do arithmetic
Came to the comments for this, always done it this way!
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
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
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.
Your guess is scientifically worthless. As any other guess, for that matter.
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.
ADHD is when different
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.
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
Normal people: breathing
Me: breathing in ADHD
ADHD people when someone with AD4K walks in:
Yeah, kinda annoying
Btw this might break rule 1, sincerely idk
I don’t think OP has a relevant experience, and it shows with these dumb memes.
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/409c3405-6ceb-4c83-b4aa-fec8fe4bf3bf.jpeg
This is the exact opposite experience I’ve heard from 90% of my adhd peeps. Cosplay shit.
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.
Is this not just how people do simple math? Why the hell else did they make us just memorize multiplication tables?
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.
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
That’s exactly how I do it!
I think I do something similar. Basically.10-7=3, 3+3=6 so 7+3+3=13 or simplified 7+6=13. Or like the above with 7+7=14 therefore 7+6=13
ADHD? I thought I was just as dumb as some mid-sized pebble.
Same kind of trick, but for additions involving 7, I subtract 3 from the other number.
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.
Isn’t this how they teach math now?
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.
Which to me says that the key takeaway is we were always the smarter ones 🤷♂️
Or that this isn’t related to ADHD at all…
Uhm aren’t all people counting like that?
Yeah
Well I suppose some might count by adding 1s or 2s but that looks more ADHD-like than the method we’re talking about here.
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.
It’s just a thing people do, has nothing to do with adhd
7+6
=8+5
=9+4
=10+3
=13
everything calculated in my head is just various examples of this daisy chained together
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.
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.
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.
This has nothing to do with ADHD.
The way i calculate this, is knowing that 7 is 10-3, and 6 is 3+3.
So, 7 + 6 = 10 + 3 = 13
Kinda the same.
I need 3 to get to 10 from 7. After that just ad the rest (6-3). Resulting in 13.
