I think there is another one, Math C that involves day-to-day mental arithmetic which I am terrible at despite being good at Math A and holding engineering degrees. There might also be another element of Math C which is a feel for numbers and lets you know if an estimate or the value staring at you on the calculator screen makes sense or if it is obviously wrong.
I tie my poor mental arithmetic skills partly to never properly learning multiplication tables, at least not all of them and perhaps something lacking in my brain which also means I have a terrible sense of direction.
Yet, when it comes to symbol manipulation where the numbers don't matter until the very end, then I am good at that.
I tie my poor mental arithmetic skills partly to never properly learning multiplication tables, at least not all of them and perhaps something lacking in my brain which also means I have a terrible sense of direction.
Yet, when it comes to symbol manipulation where the numbers don't matter until the very end, then I am good at that.