More than a quarter (27%) of children surveyed could not add £2.36 and £1.49 to get £3.85; more than one in five (22%) could not use the correct version of "they're", "there" or "their" in a sentence; almost a third (31%) could not pick the correct use of an apostrophe from three simple sentences, and more than four in 10 (42%) couldn't spell the word "secretaries" correctly.
In addition, more than a third (36%) could not divide 415 by five and a quarter did not know the answer to seven multiplied by six.
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