Bowland Maths

The new Bowland Maths Website is the website of a new project which seeks to ground maths in an explorative, problem solving environment.

Bowland Mathematics seeks to develop meta-cognitive skills and promote an analytical, quantitative attitude towards problem solving. These goals are worthy, and important life skills, but they are difficult to measure cleanly. With curricula that separate the strands of mathematics in a way that encourages their their teaching to be separated also, and with testing that aims at accountability over intelligence, school mathematics has become ever more piecemeal and disconnected with reality. Bowland is an important project that seeks to reclaim some of the lost ground.

I urge, in the strongest possible terms, that anyone involved in mathematics education take this initiative seriously. I have no vested interest in the scheme, but simply I believe that it is crucial that initiatives such as this succeed and are built upon.