From:	Mark Fender markf@******.com
Subject:	[Quite OT] the value of education (OT-rant, long)
Date:	Tue, 13 Jul 1999 13:17:52 -0500

> At 12.03 07-13-99 -0500, you wrote:
> >Okay. For starters, I can't do math. Never have been. I missed the day
> when
> <snip>
> >However, I understand the theories of math. Ask me about the Ring Theory
> of
>
> Is the problem caused by the reversal or misidentification of
> numbers?
>
No. I have heard of this as well and checked into it (Hoping there was a
government grant in it for college) but I don't have that. I see the numbers
fine. I know what they represent. I just add them wrong.

> If so, sounds very famliar. It may be discalculia (sp, but the
> phonetics
> should be close). It is sorta-kinda like dyslexia, but it only effects
> that part of the brain that does math, or that is how it was described to
> me.
>