mental-arithmetic-6

One of the books used. Sample questions from the publisher’s website include: “share £550 in the ratio 𝟧 ∶ 𝟨” and “a parallelogram is drawn so that its smallest angle is one third the
size of its largest angle. How big is the largest angle?”

Clare Wallace

Clare (like gare) is a Chalkdust editor. In her spare time, she’s an assistant professor at Durham University. She likes Skittles, probability, and making the magazine look more like Cosmo.

Chalkdust dissertation prize 2025
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