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Education and outreach

Education and outreach

Error carried forward: why we need to be vigilant even about textbooks

24 Feb 2022
Taken from the February 2022 issue of Physics World where it first appeared under the headline "Error carried forward".

David Marshall on finding errors in school science syllabuses and exam papers

a page of maths and a broken pencil
(Courtesy: iStock/malerapaso)
A question in a Year 9 exam paper for 13–14 year olds states that a scientist places a plotting co

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David Marshall is a former artist and photographer, and a teacher of science, mathematics and English at primary and secondary level, specializing in post-16 physics teaching
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