Algebra Quote by E. W. Howe

Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not.

— Plato

My students may have dexterity with the equations they're required to know, but they lack the capacity to apply their knowledge to real-life problems.…

— Priyamvada Natarajan

Mathematics education is much more complicated than you expected, even though you expected it to be more complicated than you expected.

— Edward Griffith Begle

Well, some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years,…

— Andrew Wiles

Some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and…

— Andrew Wiles

A considreable portion of my high school trigonometry course was devoted to the solution of oblique triangles... I have still not had an excuse…

— John G. Kemeny

A lot of times, when kids have problems with algebra or trigonometry, it has nothing to do with the subject matter, has nothing to…

— Sal Khan

My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking,…

— Danica McKellar

Mathematics is like childhood diseases. The younger you get it, the better.

— Arnold Sommerfeld

The only reason psychology students don't have to do more and harder mathematics than physics students is because the mathematicians haven't yet discovered ways…

— John G. Kemeny

Mathematics is about problems, and problems must be made the focus of a student's mathematical life. Painful and creatively frustrating as it may be,…

— Paul Lockhart

The history of mathematics is a history of horrendously difficult problems being solved by young people too ignorant to know that they were impossible.

— Freeman Dyson