The Mathematics Curriculum This collection was produced by the
Schools Council Project: The Mathematics Curriculum - A Critical
Review. The Project was initiated by the Mathematics Committee
of the Schools Council as a result of letters having been
received from teachers asking for guidance on the vast amount of
new mathematical literature which had been produced for schools
during the 1960s. The Project was set up in 1973 and was based
at the Shell Centre for Mathematical Education at Nottingham
University. The fundamental aim of the Project was to help
teachers to perform their own critical appraisal of the then
current mathematics syllabuses and teaching apparatus for
secondary school students in the 11 to 16 age range, with the
objective of making, for them, optimal choices. Although the
Project was not intended to be an exercise in curriculum
development, it was almost inevitable and certainly desirable
that a review of existing syllabuses should lead to a
consideration of the possibility of a synthesis