Our numeric friends

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silenceleigh is a kinetic learner in a world hopelessly dominated by visual and symbolic types. She recently posted a wonderful explanation of how she manages to do algebra in a kinetic mode.

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That seems like a really good hypothesis.
I'm extremely interested in the fact that counting is difficult for her.

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From her description it sounds like she gets really caught up in the "personalities" of the numbers, so instead of being useful shorthand for her, they present complex interaction problems.