It is now exactly three years since the conclusion of my project to explain the validity of Fermat’s Conjecture by elementary methods was put online and also published by Ingleside Ashby in a small cottage edition. Fermat had claimed in a marginal note in a book found after his death […]

The importance of getting a radical Narrative Mathematics Course established in schools is underlined by the recent financial verdict that interest rates are likely to go down again… back towards zero. This, it is thought, will happen sooner rather than later.  These rates reflect the intrinsic demand for business investment […]

It is impossible to over-state the seriousness of the fiasco surrounding ‘New Maths for Schools’ which imploded disastrously in the 1970s. It was, from the beginning,  a fantasy based on an ideological single-mindedness, a specialised (‘modern mathematics’) mindset  which turned its back on a panorama of ordinary human pursuits and […]

There has been a chronic crisis situation in school mathematics since the 1980s when an alternative (i.e. a remedy) to ‘New Maths for Schools’ was urgently needed. The broad outlines of a replacement were suggested by the much hyped  Cockcroft Report Mathematics Counts (HMSO 1982).  It threw attention onto the […]