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Barred for life: Some thoughts about exercise books, rose gardens and bar modelling

May 9, 2018May 24, 2018Oxford Maths

Lines, squares or plain? The pages of maths exercise books, I mean. For years I have insisted that pages have to have squares. Without vertical lines as well as horizontal ones how could my students possibly draw all the right-angled triangles and bearing North lines and coordinate axes and so on that I would tell […]

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