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Beyond the Bike Lesson Resource: roads and development

Ruth Tarrant

22nd October 2015

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One of the Beyond the Bike resources this week encourages students to practise their quantitative skills and analyse the possible relationship between road quality and the level of development in the countries visited by Stuart and Claire on the Beyond the Bike adventure.

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Ruth Tarrant

Ruth has been Subject Lead in Economics at tutor2u for many years after a career of teaching Economics, Business, Politics and Maths in a range of secondary schools. She is a highly experienced A level Economics Examiner, and also teaches undergraduate Economics on a very part-time basis at the University of Oxford. Ruth is passionate about making economics fun, engaging and accessible.

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