Common Quote by George Polya

It is the duty of all teachers, and of teachers of mathematics in particular, to expose their students to problems much more than to…

— Paul Halmos

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

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

One of the big misapprehensions about mathematics that we perpetrate in our classrooms is that the teacher always seems to know the answer to…

— Leon Henkin

“The issue, then, is not, What is the best way to teach? but, What is mathematics really all about?... Controversies about…teaching cannot be resolved…

— Reuben Hersh

One of the first and foremost duties of the teacher is not to give his students the impression that mathematical problems have little connection…

— George Polya

Mathematics may not teach us how to end world hunger, create world peace or fix a broken heart. But it does teach us that…

— Savannah Yates

Mathematical thinking is not the same as doing mathematics - at least not as mathematics is typically presented in our school system. School math…

— Keith Devlin

It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.

— E. W. Howe

It may be more important in the mathematics class how you teach than what you teach.

— George Polya

The instruction of children should aim gradually to combine knowing and doing. Among all sciences mathematics seems to be the only one of a…

— Immanuel Kant

One of the big misapprehensions about mathematics that we perpetrate in our classrooms is that the teacher always seems to know the answer to…

— Leon Henkin