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Gatekept

The gatekept classics

Books that were once standard for the strongest students, and the story of why schools stopped teaching them. Choose a subject.

MathematicsThe algebra, trigonometry and geometry books the best sixth formers once worked through, before maths education was rewritten: secondary school became free for everyone, far more students took maths, and the subject itself was being modernised. Wider, but with less depth.6 books, and why they stopped being taught

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