In other words, "I wouldn't expect my daughter to be any good at maths because I wasn't any good" might not be just a matter of poor parental attitude.

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"I did the maths and satisfied myself and had a feeling of confidence that I would win the case, " said Mr Constantine, 47.

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It wasn't like at school where I hated the fact I had to do maths and had to do English and all these things I didn't like.

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This, more than anything else, caused the most anxiety throughout my MBA. But my admissions officer was encouraging and thought I could overcome my maths deficiency.

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This mystery aroused me when I was away from him, and made it all the harder to stop thinking about him when I was supposed to be concentrating on maths.

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Academia is, for the most part, well suited to work-life balance choices. (I, say, for the most part because science, maths and engineering appear to have deeper problems).

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Taking the GMAT entrance exam was a wake-up call that I was about to embark on an experience that would require a lot of maths.

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"I've spent a lot of the last month going round a lot of university maths departments and speaking to the professors and to the students... and the term grade inflation is a term which is referenced and it is used constantly, " she said.

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From the people who join the page I'll be selecting a 'stratified sample' (that's my statistics GCSE maths coming in there) to analyse for my experiment.

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