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title: "Free High School Science Texts"
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The Free High School Science Texts (FHSST) organization is a South African non-profit project, which creates open textbooks on scientific subjects. Textbooks are edited to follow the government's syllabus, and published under a Creative Commons 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 proofread 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, chemistry and mathematics. They are developing books in life sciences and computer literacy and a guide to teach students how to study.


== See also ==
OpenCourseWare
Open educational resources
Open textbook
Bookboon
China Open Resources for Education
Connexions
Curriki
Flat World Knowledge
Flexbook
Khan Academy
MIT OpenCourseWare
National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning India
Open.Michigan
Tufts OpenCourseWare


== References ==


== External links ==
Official website