Blog Post #19: Numbers with Personality

 I think that perhaps Ramanujan had the Ordinal Linguistic Personification quality and more connections in his brain that was discussed in the article by Major. 

I personally would choose to mention this in my math class as a way for students to connect to the numbers and better be able to do math in their heads. When we associate numbers with certain feelings, visuals, words, etc I feel that it makes it easier to trace them and remember them as we work. I think it would make it easier to trace back to where we may have made mistakes, and give students an appreciation for the feeling of each type of question. 

I always remember numbers very easily and I do think that this is why. I thought while reading this article that maybe I have the same Ordinal Linguistic Personification quality as Ramanujan. Numbers do have a certain feeling to me, and I dont actively memorize them very often. But I still accidentally remember them all the time without knowing it. If someone asks me if I remember a certain number, it’s like my brain blurts it out for me without me having to think of it and sometimes it will be off a bit, but the numbers always have the same feeling. In high school, my friend and I memorized a few hundred digits of pi as a competition and I would group numbers together because they felt right to me, which helped me memorize them. I always felt safe with numbers, like I had a relationship with them. In high school (if you couldnt already tell) I was kind of a nerd. I had some family trouble and really felt best when I challenged myself in the maths and sciences and would spend all my time doing so. I wonder if I developed this relationship with numbers through that experience. I also have fond memories of going with my dad to his university courses and him giving me math problems to work on that were far passed the kindergarten level that I was in. He would give me a choice of stickers for getting a question right and I remember each sticker even having to feel like the numbers in the question. 

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