Becoming Quote by Jay Leno

“Why were American kids consistently underestimated in math? In middle school, Kim and Tom had both decided that math was something you were either…

— Amanda Ripley

I think we need more math majors who don't become mathematicians. More math major doctors, more math major high school teachers, more math major…

— Jordan Ellenberg

We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they'll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a…

— Bill Gates

There are two versions of math in the lives of many Americans: the strange and boring subject that they encountered in classrooms and an…

— Jo Boaler

I think there's no way they should have to teach [math] now. We have computers. We no longer need to know why 3x = 2y/4.

— Rosie O'Donnell

“NAEP data show beyond question that test scores in reading and math have improved for almost every group of students over the past two…

— Diane Ravitch

Every math curriculum in the world is based on the idea of hand-calculating, and most of what you're teaching is how to calculate. And…

— Anonymous

I'm not sure how this happened, but somehow mathematics is getting politicized. We're trying to take the politics out and put the rigor back…

— Scott Bessent

We believed we could prepare our kids for a more competitive world. And today, our younger students have earned the highest math and reading…

— Barack Obama

In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts…

— Bill Gates

We're no longer intimidated by math, because we're slowly redefining what math is.

— Dan Meyer

Math and science fields are not the only areas where we see the United States lagging behind. Less than 1 percent of American high…

— Cathy McMorris Rodgers