Controversies Quote by Reuben Hersh

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

One of the big misapprehensions about mathematics that we perpetrate in our classrooms is that the teacher always seems to know the answer to…

— Leon Henkin

One of the big misapprehensions about mathematics that we perpetrate in our classrooms is that the teacher always seems to know the answer to…

— Leon Henkin

A review of maths teaching is a great thing, but it's a complex issue, and often the damage is done in the very early…

— Rachel Riley

One of the first and foremost duties of the teacher is not to give his students the impression that mathematical problems have little connection…

— George Polya

Our teaching of mathematics revolves around a fundamental conflict. Rightly or wrongly, students are required to master a series of mathematical concepts and techniques,…

— Ian Stewart

“Knowing mathematics is like wearing a pair of X-ray specs that reveal hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of the world. Math…

— Jordan Ellenberg

It is the duty of all teachers, and of teachers of mathematics in particular, to expose their students to problems much more than to…

— Paul Halmos

One of my colleagues likes to say that, mathematics is the - he thinks about the only subject that he knows in academia or…

— Peter Woit

Mathematics may not teach us how to end world hunger, create world peace or fix a broken heart. But it does teach us that…

— Savannah Yates

For all the time schools devote to the teaching of mathematics, very little (if any) is spent trying to convey just what the subject…

— Keith Devlin

Mathematics is the art of explanation. If you deny students the opportunity to engage in this activity-- to pose their own problems, to make…

— Paul Lockhart