Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the supreme judge; from its decisions there is no appeal. — Tobias Dantzig Copy Share Image
Nothing enrages me more than when people criticize my criticism of school by telling me that schools are not just places to… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
Mathematics is not a deductive science, that's a cliché ... What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork. — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics. That tenet is the foundation of the do-it-yourself, Socratic, or Texas method, ... — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that this method [for calculating the volume of a sphere] will be of no little service to mathematics. For… — Archimedes Copy Share Image
Education is learning more than it is being taught. It's the chemistry of curiosity exposed to information. In that sense all of… — Bob Guccione, Jr Copy Share Image
“I’ve wondered if I could take my computer programming skills and apply them to learning math.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state. — Plato Copy Share Image
“Even more so than learning to read, learning mathematics particularly requires that mastery of basic skills and knowledge occur first.” — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
I think that great programming is not all that dissimilar to great art. Once you start thinking in concepts of programming it… — Jack Dorsey Copy Share Image
We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
A good stack of examples, as large as possible, is indispensable for a thorough understanding of any concept,and when I want to… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
[A mathematician is a] scientist who can figure out anything except such simple things as squaring the circle and trisecting an angle. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image