I would love to say it helps but think i would be lying As for my 144, visualising it with photoshop made it so much easier for me to understand and see the answer i wanted, you could type all week, if i cant see it i`ll never get it Thanks for all the replies. Edit - I followed your link and saw this Exercises Your wardrobe consists of 5 shirts, 3 pairs of pants, and 17 bow ties. How many different outfits can you make? Its easy without looking at the answer 5 x 3 x 17 = 255 Why was that so easy yet i couldnt get my head around the same thing with four number? Weird wiring going on in here
I'd say your wiring is perfectly normal. What I found time and again while tutoring kids was that the concept and wording of a problem are hugely important. Put the same basic idea into a difficult concept and most people will struggle to get their head around it even tho it's the same thing. When you use groups of people and tables I guess most people intuitively form a picture in their mind, like a garden party or a restaurant and things start getting very complex when you imagine a person or a social situation instead of sth simple like a sock. ^^ It often helps to try and dissect these problems into singular events or replace the original items with sth more tangible.
Ooh, that was my main problem with college maths. As long as I can visualise it I'm fine, but with more advanced stuff it often switches to abstraction and what's basically a play with symbols, at that point I easily get lost. I'm not a big fan of "pure" maths.
Deal a round of Omaha and i can tell you odds, outs ev percentages anything you want almost instantly, put that info into numbers on a page and i wouldnt have a clue what you were talking about, strange brains we live in