Talk:School Mathematics Project

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SMP maths books were (in the early 80s) far ahead of the game. For example, they covered topology at age 11, something that other syllabi leave for the university math courses to introduce. I took the O-level, Additional Math, A-level, S-level and Further Maths courses. It was tremendous fun. It was somewhat amusing later on, turning up at university and already having seen matrices, topology, and other stuff that the other students were seeing for the first time. They had to grapple with the new concepts while I could go straight on to use them in the physics context. In fact, just about the only thing I found new at university were tensors, and I cannot recall if that is because the SMP Futher Math books didn't cover them or because I skipped that part of the course.