The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment. — Alfred North Whitehead 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
A GREAT discovery solves a great problem but there is a grain of discovery in any problem. — George Polya Copy Share Image
As Congress battles over spending and cost cutting, it is imperative that funding for math education programs does not fall victim. — Priyamvada Natarajan Copy Share Image
In mathematics alone each generations adds a new story to the old structure. — Hermann Hankel Copy Share Image
I am too good for philosophy and not good enough for physics. Mathematics is in between. — George Polya Copy Share Image
What humans do with the language of mathematics is to describe patterns... — Lynn Steen Copy Share Image
Algebra is the intellectual instrument which has been created for rendering clear the quantitative aspects of the world. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Mathematics, in the common lay view, is a static discipline based on formulas...But outside the public view, mathematics continues to grow at… — Lynn Steen Copy Share Image
One thing is for sure: most of the people admitting candidates to universities for technical subjects are pretty dissatisfied with the level… — Conrad Wolfram Copy Share Image
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
The title which I most covet is that of teacher. The writing of a research paper and the teaching of freshman calculus,… — Marshall A. Cohen Copy Share Image
In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each… — Hermann Hankel Copy Share Image
Most students who take math classes aren't going to be mathematicians. They're going to be engineers, statisticians - in many ways, that's… — Terence Tao Copy Share Image
Math education has changed over the years. In the 19th century, they taught spherical trigonometry because one of the biggest applications of… — Terence Tao Copy Share Image
The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, see in the service to the… — Albert Einstein 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
America ranks 21st when it comes to math education. We rank 25th when it comes to science. We used to be number… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
A mathematician who can only generalise is like a monkey who can only climb up a tree, and a mathematician who can… — George Polya Copy Share Image
Standard mathematics has recently been rendered obsolete by the discovery that for years we have been writing the numeral five backward. This… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I had done quite a bit of research about math education when I spoke before Congress in 2000 about the importance of… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
One of the big misapprehensions about mathematics that we perpetrate in our classrooms is that the teacher always seems to know the… — Leon Henkin Copy Share Image
When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it. — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
The man ignorant of mathematics will be increasingly limited in his grasp of the main forces of civilization. — John G. Kemeny Copy Share Image
The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful. — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
The value of a problem is not so much coming up with the answer as in the ideas and attempted ideas it… — Israel Nathan Herstein Copy Share Image
One of the big misapprehensions about mathematics that we perpetrate in our classrooms is that the teacher always seems to know the… — Leon Henkin Copy Share Image
More than fifty years ago Sputnik dramatically raised the nation's awareness of what was lacking in science and math education in America.… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
I have been involved with science and math education my whole life. My hope is to continue to promote the love of… — Tohoru Masamune Copy Share Image
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