Characters in Maths Puppet World - Monsters

The only really horrid character inhabiting the Maths Puppets’ world is the Maths Monster. He is a really scary creature. He appears whenever the pupils have got a problem that they do not know how to tackle. He terrorises them and makes them fret. However, once the pupils find out how to do the questions that conjure him up, he shrinks in size and becomes insignificant. He represents the fear that we all have of not doing well and also the mountain that a subject like maths appears to be when we start out, but turns out to be trivially tiny once we have mastered it all, and we ask ourselves what all the fuss was about. This personification of the fear engendered by maths and the way it is belittled and conquered help instill in children the idea that maths is not insurmountable, that it can be mastered and that the difficulties that they might encounnter along the way do reduce in size and eventually go away.