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From: Tom Carty <cartyweb at hotmail.com>
Subject: LL-L "Numeralia" 2009.01.06 (08) [E]

My brother always had the same problem... he never lined the numbers up
correctly, always left aligning them instead of right aligning, so
100+20+1023 he vrote vertically as

100
20
1023

giving a sum of 4023 instead of 1043, which we put down maybe to a touch of
dyslexia, but now that you mention language, maybe that was it, though
English is pretty straightforward.

I personally blame the system of teaching horizontal before vertical, he
found the change difficult...

Tom

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From: heatherrendall at tiscali.co.uk <heatherrendall at tiscali.co.uk>
Subject: LL-L "Numeralia" 2009.01.06 (08) [E]

from heather Rendall  heatherrendall at tiscali.co.uk

re the whole of Marlou's reply

Brilliant! What a lovely reply because it takes what I described and then
moves one step on!

I do agree that numbers are greatly affected by how we learn them. In my 20s
I had a shop and discovered that my mind went a total blank whenever I had
to add anything with a unit 7 to anything with a unit 8  i.e. 7 + 18  or 58+
17   or 37 +8 and I couldn't work out for a long time why. Then one
Christmas I found myself playing Cribbage with my mother, where cards have
to add up to 15 so 7s and 8s are important / useful cards to have. I found
my mind blanking out in exactly the same way at the end of each round as my
mother added up my totals for me. Despite the fact that I had been conscious
enough of the addition to make sure I kept the right cards, I appear to have
given up in the face of my mother's quicker arithmetic! And so never got
round to actually adding 7 + 8 = 15. Or was it that I has never been allowed
to say it!

We used to play a lot of family games using dice and I do see combinations
of numbers as on the faces of dice

o                     o             o

o          +                o                          =  8

o                    o              o

In the New Scientist  last week (Jan 3rd)  was a v interesting article by
Daniel Tammet the autistic savant who not only excels at numbers but
languages as well. For him numbers have 'texture'!

Heather

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