Approach Quote by Shakuntala Devi

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

— Arnold Sommerfeld

I think the biggest misconception about mathematics is that everybody has to learn it. That seems to be a complete mistake. All the time…

— Freeman Dyson

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 are one of the fundamentaries of educationalizing our youth.

— George W. Bush

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

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

Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.

— Plato

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

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

“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

It's not fair that kids feel like they have to be naturally gifted at math and science, but with , it's often pushed to…

— Peyton List

“Why did math matter so much? Some reasons were practical: More and more jobs required familiarity with probability, statistics, and geometry. The other reason…

— Amanda Ripley