Favorite thing Quote by Jordan Ellenberg

“The what to do can be taught; the how to do it is not as easy to pass on to someone who simply doesn’t…

— Amber Hurdle

“The simplest things are the hardest to understand.”

— Kevin Wilson

“I'm bad at math because I can't find the basic statement in it.”

— Innasafa

“I think I’m able to explain things because understanding wasn't entirely easy for me. Some things that the most brilliant students were able to…

— Carl Sagan

“It's much easier, after all, to learn mathematics from someone who's made a few mistakes. It's impossible to learn it from someone who always…

— John Lennox

“To teach what one doesn't know is simply to ask questions about what one doesn't know.”

— Jacques Rancière

“Mathematicians need to understand a problem only for themselves; math teachers need both to know the math and to know how 30 different minds…

— Elizabeth Green

“understanding something didn’t make it easier.”

— Susanna Kearsley

“For until you can admit what you don't yet know, it's virtually impossible to learn what you need to.”

— Steven D. Levitt

A teacher's hardest lesson is to limit his explanation to the minimum.

— Ernst Bacon

“I liked maths because it meant solving problems, and these problems were difficult and interesting but there was always a straightforward answer at the…

— Mark Haddon

“I thought about the hours we spent practicing increasingly complex math problems. He taught me that lack of knowledge and lack of intelligence were…

— J.D. Vance