{"id":222,"date":"2019-10-13T02:51:19","date_gmt":"2019-10-13T02:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nwhellcats.org\/blog\/?p=222"},"modified":"2019-10-13T02:51:19","modified_gmt":"2019-10-13T02:51:19","slug":"story-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nwhellcats.org\/blog\/2019\/10\/13\/story-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Story Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">Last week I went to see the doc with my 84-year-old mom. The doc decided to run some memory tests on her. It was the usual thing you see on TV on in a movie. A few questions in, the doc told her that he\u2019s going to ask a story problem and I PANICKED. <br><br>I can\u2019t do a story problem on paper much less in my head. How was she supposed to do one?!  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I&#8217;m forced to do a story problem, I forget the first half before I\u2019m through the paragraph. I never know what\u2019s important to solve the question. They are ALWAYS a nightmare. <br><br>In that moment, I was not sure if I was more terrified for my mom or for me and I didn\u2019t have to solve the problem! <br><br>Before the doc was halfway through the story problem which he would repeat several times, I felt THE WALL go up behind my eyes. It\u2019s something I\u2019ve had since I was little when faced with math. Once THE WALL is up there\u2019s no getting through it, past it, over it. <br><br>Well, that&#8217;s not entirely not true. My dad could somehow push through THE WALL and help me figure it out. And he never finished junior high! Needless to say, once I got into algebra, he couldn&#8217;t help me any more and my math grades were in the toilet after that.<br><br>When I drove home after Mom&#8217;s appointment, I was still twitchy over the math problem. At work I write all information down, figure out what I need and what is static. Then I do the math. Then I double check everything. Something is usually wrong. And usually I\u2019ll find it.  Then it occured to me that I remember the ENTIRE story problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>You go to the store with $100. You buy a dozen apples at $3. A tricycle at $20. How much money do you have left?  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whoa. It was like fear had branded it onto my skull or something.<br><br>The only time I ever enjoyed math was when I took statistics in grad school which is&#8211;I KNOW&#8211;totally weird. It made me wonder if whatever triggered THE WALL had been avoided would I have excelled at math?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"504\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nwhellcats.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/board-2853022_960_720.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-223\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nwhellcats.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/board-2853022_960_720.jpg 960w, http:\/\/www.nwhellcats.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/board-2853022_960_720-300x158.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.nwhellcats.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/board-2853022_960_720-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption>image from Pixabay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I went to see the doc with my 84-year-old mom. The doc decided to run some memory tests on her. It was the usual thing you see on TV on in a movie. A few questions in, the doc told her that he\u2019s going to ask a story problem and I PANICKED. I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwhellcats.org\/blog\/2019\/10\/13\/story-problems\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Story Problems&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","tag-ruminating"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nwhellcats.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nwhellcats.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nwhellcats.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nwhellcats.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nwhellcats.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.nwhellcats.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227,"href":"http:\/\/www.nwhellcats.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions\/227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nwhellcats.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nwhellcats.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nwhellcats.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}