I downloaded some brain-training software for my PDA. It had a testing phase, timed games. Adding/subtracting/dividing numbers, picking out matching visual elements, etc. Then it gives you the results.
It seems I have the brain of a child. I immediately start thinking, great. Maybe Mom was having me tested as a child to see if I was developmentally disabled. Oh crap.... Then I heard the words of my college calculus professor telling me.. "You know you are really very talented in math. You should think of changing your major." Then I remembered my college grades, making the Dean's list over and over.
And I started laughing. Kind of ironic, huh?
I tried helping my first grader with a 2nd grade math game yesterday. Picking two numbers out of six to create an equation. But the problem that I had is that I could get two of the equations but not the third. All six numbers had to be used. I felt really stupid after that. No good reason to feel stupid. That's an algebra-level problem, and your second-grader was being expected to solve it by trial-and-error.