The idea that Maths and Science are true indicators of mental acumen is what leads people to think (and insist) that dyscalculics like myself are stupid. ?

It could be said that test taking is a way of measuring how well a student has learned the material. If you have an issue with the validity of a test, the test should be changed.

@TheMiddleWay I agree. I think I probably believe in multiple intelligences the way that you do. When it was presented to me with learning styles, I was skeptical. I did research on both concepts, and only came to really reject learning styles. And although I buy into the idea of multiple intelligences, I disagreed with some of the conclusions my professor came to.

@PraiseXenu No fair! Mnemonic devices are cheating!! Which did you get? I was given "Dumb [domain], Kindly Professors Cannot Often Fail Good Students."

@PraiseXenu You chose to learn it try memorizing 14 numbers for a week in a year from now try to recall them. Committing information to your long-term memory is way different than memorizing.

@PraiseXenu I hear you. People used to commit extraordinary feats of memory regularly: Roman Senators with their speeches, monks with their scriptures, bards with their epic poems, ancient peoples with their oral histories. Fascinating stuff; a shame it's been wasted. I have been trying to train my memory to work that way. I find that closing my eyes helps me create mental images which then help a bit with the recall. Practiced on sermons, sutras, etc.

Yes...that is why I have forgotten that six times six is thirty-six. And, "Under the spreading chestnut tree, a village smithy stands." Yup, memorization is of no use at all...we would be better just writing it on our sleeves.