uhhhh that's not how everyone does it?

This has nothing to do with ADHD... mixing up stuff is just confusing people

This has absolutely nothing to do with ADHD

I'm sorry, but this is a silly statement. This is by no means an ADHD thing. It's a pattern understanding or logic

I'm trying to teach my kid this. Not to use this specific method for addition, but recognize and understand patterns in math.

That's the smart way to do math. I mean not with such small numbers but you'd do the same thing adding up large numbers, you break down the numbers and rearrange them in a way that's easier to compute.

Algebra probably feels intuitive to you.

They're also trying to teach that in math classes (it gets called "new" math) but the boomers are freaking out because "why can't they just do normal additions like we used to, this is so complicated". And the answer to that is, 99% of the time you'll be doing algebra because we literally all carry a calculator in our pockets and sometimes on our wrists at all times and we never need to just do a long division. And that kind of thinking really makes it easy to break down formulas because your brain thinks in terms of moving stuff around in an equation.

This is how it is supposed to be taught. Common core has this exact quality of numbers explicitly shield or in primary school curriculum. Numbers are not static objects but the composite of infinite functions that can be used to determine the value in whatever base number system you want. Next time someone says school didn't teach math remind them that the US is something like 30th in the world at math and when the department of education tried to do something about it parents said it was too hard to understand and we just kept falling backwards.

Source : I have a BA and masters in math with a focus on education

No, since 6+6=12, then because 7 is one more than 6, 6+7=13

7 + how much is ten? 3
How much is left? 3
Ten plus however much is left = 13

wait, no, this is how everyone does math. right? ...right?

7 is closer to 10 than 6 so we consider that 7 is really just a 10 with a size-3 hole in it and we fill that hole with 3 from the 6 giving a 10 with 3 left over which make 13.

Also not an ADHD thing.

i was gonna say, this is ADHD math? I just thought this was mental math in short lmao.

6=3+3, 7+3=10, 10+3=13

PS I had to edit this post because of typos.

That's how our math teacher taught us to take shortcuts in elementary school.

That's just called using heuristics, friend, though if ADHD impeded their progress in math, maybe ADHD people rely more on heuristics than neurotypicals do.

7+6=? 7+3+3=? 10+3=? 13=13 (Not ADHD)

Interesting, I make sets of 10. When I see 7 and 6, half of the 6 moves over to make 10 + 3. I say "moves over" because it feels like dividing tokens into sets in my head.

I calculate percentage like this. If 100% is the value, then I know what 10% is, then1%, so I do increments of both until I get to the correct value.

It may sound stupid,but it does help me get a % fast enough.

The meme has nothing to to with ADHD, however your explication of how it happened does.

I don't think I have ADHD but I do it exactly this way.

Wait, let me check the math...

6+6=12 and 7 is one more than 6, so 6+7=13

Cool. Checks out.

I always tell my children that Maths is finding the best way to cheat at a problem. Don't solve the hard problem. Solve the easy one that's kind of like the hard problem and then find the difference.

And judging by the school material that's how they're supposed to do it. But either the teachers aren't explaining it that way or the kids aren't listening.

14 & 6 = 6

My brain actually computes it first as 7 + 5 = 12 + 1 = 13.

I add 5s together a lot at my work (14, 19, 24... 63, 68, 73....) hard to explain why, but my brain jumps to 5s very easily for addition because of it.

How I calculate percentages and settle for close enough.

Prostrate yourselves, defective prole masses. I’ve memorized my +/- tables all the way up to 8.

This is a good approach, but for this example I break it up as:

7+6=7+3+3=10+3=13

6-3=3, 7+3=10, 10+3=13

get to 10, add what's left.

Holy shit balls I feel seen!