Mathsnumeracytutor

‘You are not bad at maths,” she says firmly after our first session, with a confidence I do not share. “What you were presented with aged seven was never processed or absorbed. The groundwork wasn’t laid. You need to understand the concepts and you never did.”

My midlife maths challenge — I’m going back to school At school, Hilary Rose was so bad, her top exam mark was 18 per cent. Can she solve her problem with numbers in two weeks?

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Teacher who removed son from school says system failing dyslexic children Children with suspected dyslexia should be supported from nursery age to avoid a “miserable” school life, according to a specialist teacher who…