ABSTRACT
This may seem a strange way to begin, but we do not think that finding the truth about girls and Mathematics is possible. There are scientific ‘facts’, of course, but we shall demonstrate that these are open to serious question. We should, however, state straight away that we do not want to argue that current work on girls and Mathematics is a false or pseudoscience and that what is needed is a feminist science, which will unproblematically tell the unbiased and undistorted truth. The issues of truth, scientificity and method are more complex, and in the next three chapters we shall outline our approach to these issues.
