Maths made fun

sir – Jemima Lewis (Comment, May 19) and her daughter might like to know that there are other, more “user friendly” avenues for maths.

After five agonising grammar school years of maths, algebra and geometry, I was allowed to switch to a secretarial course, where I became acquainted with bookkeeping. Numbers suddenly made sense and became fun. An A-grade pass in my GCE was the result. Lindsay Gaskell

Moorooka, Queensland, Australia