I'd like to be able to do complex math in my head. Any kind of adversity and I become very anxious, but if you're a robot, you have good equilibrium.….
The numbers are a catalyst that can help turn raving madmen into polite humans..
There is certainly the intention of efforts like the Common Core to raise education standards and make sure that every student masters advanced math ….
I recall once saying that when I had given the same lecture several times I couldn't help feeling that they really ought to know it by now..
I recognize the lion by his paw..
It's the usual Socialist fiscal math of 1 + 1 = You're paying, so who cares..
Mathematics, in the common lay view, is a static discipline based on formulas...But outside the public view, mathematics continues to grow at a rapid….
America ranks 21st when it comes to math education. We rank 25th when it comes to science. We used to be number one in the proportion of college grad….
The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a ph….
If a nonnegative quantity was so small that it is smaller than any given one, then it certainly could not be anything but zero. To those who ask what….
When something is beautiful in math, everything is just perfectly lined up, and you see through sheer thought that something really beautiful can tak….
Mathematics is not yet ready for such problems..
The thing I want you especially to understand is this feeling of divine revelation. I feel that this structure was "out there" all along I just could….
[Math is] not at all like science. There's no experiment I can do with test tubes and equipment and whatnot that will tell me the truth about a figme….
What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics?.
Jesus was a pothead- long hair, beard, sandals, carpenter- do the math it all adds up. Living with twelve guys with no visible means of support..
Once you understand that there's a spiritual math, add soul to the science and subtract the riff-raff. 24-7-365, cause 9 to 5 ain't alive..
The lock-step approach of algebra, geometry, and then more algebra (but rarely any statistics) is still dominant in U. S. schools, but hardly anywher….
I've taught statistics, math courses and what I've found is that often if you teach them algebraically the formulas, you'll have one group of kids do….
Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students' math and language skills and improve test ….
I failed math; Einstein passed it. But he couldn’t paint and sculpt like me. So we all have these specialties, these strengths..