Challenges Quote by Howard Whitley Eves

There is a distinction between what may be called a problem and what may be considered an exercise. The latter serves to drill a…

— Howard Whitley Eves

The advice I tell students is to think about the big problems. I mean, work on anything you can work on where you can…

— David Gross

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

Solving problems is a practical art, like swimming, or skiing, or playing the piano: you can learn it only by imitation and practice.

— George Polya

“School is often based not on problem solving, which perforce involves actions and goals, but on learning information, facts, and formulas that one has…

— James Paul Gee

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

6 problems of students: Love life, Grades, Exams, Assignments, Teachers and most of all PAPERS.

— Anonymous

Even fairly good students, when they have obtained the solution of the problem and written down neatly the argument, shut their books and look…

— George Polya

Problems are good, as long as you solve them quickly,

— Meg Whitman

If I hold up one corner of a square and the student cannot workout the other three for himself, I won't go any further.

— Confucius

I tell my students to try early in life to find an unattainable objective.

— George Wald

I don't want to deal with problems, and so you want to make sure that you don't give yourself problems by not doing your…

— Mike Candrea