Originally Posted by
jcrow
I'm with you there! I don't understand this at all. I am not a person who can do math at all. It has to say how many I have to cut. Were you suppose to cut one of each of these? Or multiple? I am totally confused. I have some bad math brain. Even adding and subtracting is hard for me. But give me a book and I can read it in a day. I can do almost anything but math. And I worked as a cashier in my little town for a while and people would give me a $10 bill and at the last minute they would throw out a nickel and a penny and expect me to figure out what to give them for change. I had to get out the calculator. They would make me feel bad and tell me how much I was suppose to give them back, but they didn't realize that I didn't know that. They weren't my only customers. Everyone did that and I hated it. I finally was able to stay home and not work there anymore. It was just a part time job for a while anyway. Boy, I felt like crying after the customers got through with me doing that.
I feel for you. I didn't find out about my problem until in my 30s when my small daughter came home from school one day and said, "Mummy, numbers are scary." She was referring to the fact they almost have a life of their own, a bit like moving and jumping, but not quite - anyone with dyslexia will know what I'm talking about!
I
hate when people try to make others feel stupid, which clearly you are
not 
.
I retired early from my job as a lecturer, but before that I was involved with adult literacy. I used to say that I taught clever people to read and write - it was just a skill they hadn't yet mastered.