Mathematics Quote by Amanda Ripley

“Interestingly, the only class that Eric actually enjoyed in Korea was math. He noticed it on his first day of school. Something was very…

— Amanda Ripley

“Tom was not good at math. He’d started to lose his way in middle school, as so many American kids did. It had happened…

— Amanda Ripley

“progressive enrichment of children’s intuitions, leaning heavily on their precocious understanding of quantitative manipulations and of counting. One should first arouse their curiosity with…

— Stanislas Dehaene

“I told her that being a bench worker and an electrician had taught me the value of math while leading me to the conclusion…

— Lu Nei

“He calculated the number of bricks in the wall, first in twos and then in tens and finally in sixteens. The numbers formed up…

— Terry Pratchett

“I did the math. (I presume Americans don't pluralise mathematics because they only plan to do it once.)”

— Sheridan Jobbins

“I had been to school most all the time, and could spell, and read, and write just a little, and could say the multiplication…

— Mark Twain

“playing with numbers was still considered taboo, a subject best left to the later years, despite America’s obvious and enduring math handicap. For too…

— Amanda Ripley

Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It's a universal language; numbers belong to everyone.

— Daniel Tammet

“Q and Beanpole and I giggled at the way our math teacher, Mr. Sung-Li, wore four pencils in his shirt pocket in case he…

— Alan Lawrence Sitomer

“It is a little like developing the habit of stealing the test from your teacher’s desk instead of learning how to do the math.”

— Josh Waitzkin

“Teachers of subjects that this person wasn't even good at are kissing this person and renouncing the very subjects they taught. Math teachers are…

— Miranda July