Bed Quote by Michael Cunningham

What grinds me the most is that we’re sending kids out into the world who don’t know how to balance a checkbook, don’t know…

— Chris Colfer

Take a random group of 8-year-old American and Japanese kids, give them all a really, really hard math problem, and start a stopwatch. The…

— Malcolm Gladwell

A lot of times, when kids have problems with algebra or trigonometry, it has nothing to do with the subject matter, has nothing to…

— Sal Khan

Why do children dread mathematics? Because of the wrong approach. Because it is looked at as a subject.

— Shakuntala Devi

“In Korea, math moved fluidly. When the teacher asked questions, the kids answered as if math were a language that they knew by heart.…

— Amanda Ripley

Almost 50 years old now, some 30 years after graduation, I look at my Caltech classmates and conclude that math whizzes do not take…

— Sandra Tsing Loh

“While parents are too occupied with teaching their children math and science, they totally neglect the importance of imagination which can take children to…

— John Taskinsoy

“Other countries whose educational systems achieve more than ours often do so in part by attempting less. While school children in Japan are learning…

— Thomas Sowell

Doesn't every kid want to dig a hold to China? Didn't you? What about Chinese children?

— Louis Sachar

“All the geography, trigonometry, and arithmetic in the world are useless unless you learn to think for yourself. No school teaches you that. It's…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“What grinds me the most is we're sending kids out into the world who don't know how to balance a checkbook, don't know how…

— Chris Colfer

There's a tendency for adults to label the math that they can do (such as identifying patterns, choosing between competing offers in a supermarket,…

— Robert Eastaway