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Maths textbooks
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Mr. McNealy, the fiery co-founder and former chief executive of Sun Microsystems, shuns basic math textbooks as bloated monstrosities: their price keeps rising while the core information inside of them stays the same. - More
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Richard Feynman told a wonderful story about math textbooks. He was one of a group of people who were supposed to give a score of 1 to 10 to a selection of math textbooks, the idea being that the book with the highest average score would be the one chosen for that state’s standard math text. All well and good, but one of the books was blank. The testers who noticed it didn’t give it a score. Those who just automatically issued a 10 to everything never noticed that it was blank. The book that was chosen had an average score of ten, which sounds great, until you realise it was blank.
Sorry can’t help you on the IGCSE book choice – we’re using a standard GCSE one.