Quotes by Math The lock-step approach of algebra, geometry, and then more algebra (but rarely any statistics) is still dominant in U. S. schools, but hardly anywhere else. This fragmented approach yields effective mathematics education not for the many but for the few primarily those who are independently motivated and who will learn under any conditions. Lynn Steen teachingmathschool Mathematics, in the common lay view, is a static discipline based on formulas...But outside the public view, mathematics continues to grow at a rapid rate...the guid to this growth is not calculation and formulas, but an open ended search for pattern. Lynn Steen teachingviewsmath What humans do with the language of mathematics is to describe patterns. Lynn Steen patternsmathknowledge I never got a pass mark in math ... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books. M. C. Escher educationmathbook For me it remains an open question whether [this work] pertains to the realm of mathematics or to that of art. M. C. Escher teachingmathart We could present spatially an atomic fact which contradicted the laws of physics, but not one which contradicted the laws of geometry. Ludwig Wittgenstein lawmathfacts By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analyzing the observations that I had made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics. Although I am absolutely without training in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists. M. C. Escher artistteachingmath Math is one of my favorite subjects. Macaulay Culkin favorite-subjectmy-favoritemath The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points. Maggie Gallagher readingmathschool A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction. Mae West moneymathfunny I do not think we are ever going to be able to, for a long time, get the kind of quality of school personnel that we need in our schools, especially in the areas of science and math. One of the answers to that problem is to use more educational technology. Major Owens educationalmathschool A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant. Manfred Eigen technologymathscience Superstar lawyers and math whizzes and software entrepreneurs appear at first blush to lie outside ordinary experience. But they don't. They are products of history and community, of opportunity and legacy. Their success is not exceptional or mysterious. It is grounded in a web of advantages and inheritances, some deserved, some not, some earned, some just plain lucky - but all critical to making them who they are. The outlier, in the end, is not an outlier at all. Malcolm Gladwell mathopportunitylying If your parents are billionaires, that might actually be an obstacle to your own happiness and self-development. If you go to Oxford or Harvard, that might actually thwart your desire to graduate with a science or math degree. Malcolm Gladwell selfoxfordmath The reason why we do maths is because it's like poetry. It's about patterns, and that really turned me on. It made me feel that maths was in tune with the other things I liked doing. Marcus du Sautoy patternstunesmath The point is with good maths skills you have just wonderful opportunities and if you don't have good maths skills, there are just so many things that you won't be able to do. Marcus du Sautoy skillsmathopportunity Mathematics is a place where you can do things which you can't do in the real world. Marcus du Sautoy realmathworld I'm sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it. Malcolm X sorrymistakemath To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution. Marcus Aurelius philosophicalwisemath As a child it was clear to me that in some sense math was in the world around us. I became fascinated by what this means. When you look at the shape of the sun and the moon, they're circles, so every time you see a circular thing, there's pi embedded in it. Margaret Wertheim mathmeanchildren«4546474849505152535455»
