Dean Wallis, Founder

Hi, my name's Dean Wallis, and I had the bright idea of setting up this free-to-use service for adults who want to work on their maths anxiety and improve their relationship with numbers.

My background is an equal mix of start-ups and teaching.  I spent ten years either investing in start-ups or founding them myself.  I then followed this by following my heart into the classroom and teaching young children for the next decade.  

Learnings from this meandering career include:

• I love starting new ventures
• I am better at teaching than investing
• It breaks my heart to see people, young and old, who have a miserable time with numbers

I also noticed during my teaching time that when parents struggle with maths, or generally avoid mixing with numbers, then children are much more likely to enter school with an a greater uncertainty, or dislike of numbers.  

Thus, this is my first step into adult education.  Only time will tell if my hunch is accurate, but a growing weight of evidence convinces me, that in supporting adults to develop a positive attitude to numbers, we are also supporting the next generation to enter the school without the burden of maths-anxiety weighing them down.