Analyzing Quote by Martin Gardner

It's my belief that you can take everyone down a logical path if you take them slowly enough, and the trouble is that mathematical…

— Marcus du Sautoy

“It is a little like developing the habit of stealing the test from your teacher’s desk instead of learning how to do the math.”

— Josh Waitzkin

“I still remember the day I got my first calculator Teacher: All right, children, welcome to fourth grade math. Everyone take a calculator out…

— Simon Rich

I chose to be a maths teacher because I thought the marking would be easy. You'd just tick and cross, whereas if you're an…

— Romesh Ranganathan

The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers were. Mathematics…

— Carl Jung

Students never think it can be the teacher's fault and so I thought I was stupid. I was frustrated and would come home and…

— Danica McKellar

The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it.

— Anonymous

Indeed, there is something to be said for the old math when taught by a poorly trained teacher. He can, at least, get across…

— Martin Gardner

When your teacher takes off an unnecessary amount of points for a stupid mistake.

— Anonymous

“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

I thought I was a good teacher until I discovered my students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the material,

— Eric Mazur

In the early days, I often felt that I was taking a math test when we were playing. It was a profound feeling of…

— Chris Stein