[ Jocelyn Ireson-Paine's Home Page | Publications | Dobbs Code Talk Index | Dobbs Blog Version ]

Applied Mathematics Kits

The School Mathematics Project started in the 1960s, and brought modern ideas — modern for schools, that is — into the curriculum, introducing pupils to mathematical structure as evident in (I believe) sets, graphs, geometric symmetry groups, and logic circuits. But to make room for these, other topics had to go. What follows is my conversion into HTML: the original, which I came across last night, was printed with the same fonts and layout as an A-level, the exam taken before leaving school at 17.

 

Special Advertisement

 


APPLIED MATHEMATICS KITS

As a result of recent reconstruction, the School Mathematics Project has a large amount of material for disposal at reduced prices, and offers to interested readers the following

SUPERB SURPLUS KITS IN APPLIED MATHEMATICS

 

STANDARD KIT
includes

SPECIAL "DE LUXE" KIT
includes, in addition,


The whole ready packed in a perfectly rough hollow sphere of radius r and negligible thickness. Price a + bx, where a and b are constants and x is the distance from the orchard at Woolsthorpe, Lincs.


Sherborne SchoolH. M. Cundy et al