Primary school was a looong time ago but...
I really couldn't handle anything like math/science. I think I was willing to give it a go, but found it boring and hard. I have since realised that some people see everything straight up and down, remembering things by numbers and phrases but I see everything creatively and in pictures...so no wonder...
i was best at the creative stuff like story writing, english, and learning recorder and all that. It's always been like that. I don't think it was neccessarily anything to do with the teacher. Really don't think big classes helped though, when they sometimes would just shake their head at me and move onto the next kid bc they didn't have the time to explain some mathematical concept to me.
I really think that some kids are creative and some aren't. Bc even if I day dreamed all the way through math, I kicked everyone's arse with recorder and helped other kids learn to read. woohoo.
They did this interesting thing one year in primary school, I think I was about 8 or something, when they decided to split up the room into different sections. i.e. writing corner, maths corner, and you could do whatever you wanted all day. Now I thought this was great - basically I went in the corner and wrote stories all day. This teacher had no control though, and so most kids got away with doing fuck all, and I got away with doing no maths!!
But yeah this love of the arts has continued and I ended up studying music, and struggling with maths the whole way through high school.