[algebraicgeo]

> It's worth noting I have some of the symptoms of dyscalculia, so perhaps my brain isn't really built to do math and is why I struggle so much?

Does discalculia have to do with numbers and calculations exclusively? It's not very hard to cook up math problems where the numbers are well-hidden so that you don't touch them directly. A lot of induction arguments are like that. Have you ever seen a math proof? The reason I am asking this is because your writing seems lucid enough and math proofs are nothing but tight explanations why a statement is true.

Take a look at this free book by Richard Hammack and see if you like the flavor of it because that's how much of math is: http://www.people.vcu.edu/~rhammack/BookOfProof/

[ancarda]

Thanks for the link, I skimmed through the Direct Proof PDF - it seems very complicated. I have done some Discrete Math which I found fairly understandable once I went over it a few times as I could link it back to computer science. It was kinda like learning a very terse programming language.

[khedoros1]

One of the things that I used to do with knew math ideas was to write a program that illustrates them, then tweak values in the program to get a better intuitive feel for how the math works.

I usually come to understand the concept through experimentation that way, and from that point the actual notation doesn't matter as much (although it's still like reading a foreign language, to a certain degree).