Dyscalculia: Do PM Rishi Sunak's maths plans add up for everyone?
"This is a deeply, profoundly offensive message to be sending to someone like me."
"[If I was in school now] this would have been the end of me. I would have just felt that my future was over," he said.The BBC has asked the Cabinet Office to comment. Ms Tarbuck dropped maths as soon as she could at Scottish standard level . Had she been made to continue maths to 18, she believes it would have "considerably reduced her chances" of getting the grades needed for her university of choice.
She said she was lucky to get the right support, but some pupils might be trying "really, really hard" to do their "absolute best in maths", but something is still not clicking."I continued to have this very difficult relationship with maths for many years... [struggling] with numbers in the same way some people struggle with words. I would like to see it acknowledged in a similar way.
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