Courses Quote by Robert Sternberg

The instruction of children should aim gradually to combine knowing and doing. Among all sciences mathematics seems to be the only one of a…

— Immanuel Kant

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

Mathematics are one of the fundamentaries of educationalizing our youth.

— George W. Bush

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

Maths is totally done differently to what I was teached when I was at school.

— David Beckham

My students may have dexterity with the equations they're required to know, but they lack the capacity to apply their knowledge to real-life problems.…

— Priyamvada Natarajan

Maths is like learning a language: you need to learn the basics to get going, but a lot of adults go into blind panic…

— Rachel Riley

All the time worrying about pushing the children and getting them to be mathematically literate and all that stuff. It's terribly hard on the…

— Freeman Dyson

“progressive enrichment of children’s intuitions, leaning heavily on their precocious understanding of quantitative manipulations and of counting. One should first arouse their curiosity with…

— Stanislas Dehaene

Mathematics is like childhood diseases. The younger you get it, the better.

— Arnold Sommerfeld

Mathematicians use intuition, conjecture and guesswork all the time except when they are in the classroom.

— Joseph Warren

It may be more important in the mathematics class how you teach than what you teach.

— George Polya