Too many children still leave primary school unable to read and write properly.

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Unable to read and write, Goodfellow nonetheless had an intuitive understanding of math, and one day a schoolteacher caught him trying to divide the likes of 1, 453 by 28 on a slate board in the corner of the room.

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Nearly a third were unable to read 20 common words, while 17% of the children were still at the basic stage of writing and could not write their own name or other words from memory - an increase from 15% last year.

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