The Free High School Science Texts (FHSST) organization is a South African non-profit project, which creates

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on scientific subjects. Textbooks are edited to follow the government's

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, and published under a

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license (CC BY), allowing teachers and students to print them or share them digitally.

History

FHSST was conceived in 2002 by Mark Horner, a physicist, when some rural South African children asked him to

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notes that they had taken on a talk he gave on wave phenomena. The children intended to take the notes back to their schoolmates to use as a textbook on the subject.

Subjects

FHSST has released books for grades 10-12 on

physics Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which r ...

chemistry Chemistry is the science, scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a natural science that covers the Chemical element, elements that make up matter to the chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules and ions ...

and

mathematics Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics ...

. They are developing books in

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and

computer literacy Computer literacy is defined as the knowledge and ability to use computers and related technology efficiently, with skill levels ranging from elementary use to computer programming and advanced problem solving. Computer literacy can also refer ...

and a guide to teach students how to study.

References

External links

* {{official, http://www.fhsst.org Open content Science textbooks

History

Subjects

See also

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