When a
math educator is
hell-bent to depicting an idiot-proof version of
Singapore’s bar model method as a non-algebraic solution to a word problem to impress upon teachers and writers that most of their clumsily or amateurishly constructed bar models often confuse rather than enlighten their green audiences.
Singapore
math writers ought to mindfully and elegantly incorporate bar modeling in their solutions to
brain-unfriendly
math questions if they are dead serious in marketing the intuitive problem-solving visualization strategy to skeptical math teachers overseas—they need to creatively evangelize the “bar modeling made ridiculously simple” gospel far and wide to win over new converts.