# Why is there math in everything?! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 29, 2014, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-math-in-everything/708416 "2014-12-29T05:41:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![ArztWolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@ArztWolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArztWolf)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2014, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-math-in-everything/708416/1 "2014-12-29T05:41:20Z")
I just got done talking to my sister on the phone and they are having a heck of a time finding a job/career for my niece (diagnosed NLD, Dyscalculia,and EDS type 3). The problems are: 1. She can’t to math above a second grade level. 2. She has trouble following the flow of conversations at times. Plus some speech issues. 3. The EDS makes it so her joints are craptastic, so she can’t do very much physical stuff (her job as a grocery store bagger causes her pain). My sister and her have been poring over a local community college’s offerings online and everyone that sounds good (heck, even a BAKING degree) requires her to take at least one math class. These aren’t goof off types (Math Survey, etc), no she needs to take CALCULUS to be able to bake bread. :smack: She wasn’t set on that degree, its just one my told me. She is intelligent and caring, she knows she is different. This is the third voc rehab counciliar she has seen. The first treated her like shit and didn’t help her at all, the second got fired for promising people too much (told niece all math could be wavered) and the current one is at a loss as what to do. Thank you for listening to my rant, any ideas would be appreciated. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-math-in-everything/708416)._