Top 1200 Math Class Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Someone has remarked that 'An ideal math talk should have one proof and one joke and they should not be the same'.

I'm excited about the emergence of tokens, and while I'm skeptical of many of the early projects being launched, I do believe we are seeing the emergence of an entirely new asset class that will foster the growth of a new investment community, a new set of social networks, and most importantly, a new class of technologies.

I was very good in math and physics. In the Soviet time, we had a lot of Olympic-style competitions for different disciplines: I was always winning in my region.

Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind.

So the state founded on natural principles is wise as a whole in virtue of the knowledge inherent in its smallest constituent class, which exercises authority over the rest. And the smallest class is the one which naturally possesses that form of knowledge which alone of all others deserves the title of wisdom.

People all learn things differently, and sometimes imagination isn't considered as useful a tool as it can be in the learning process - especially in school in subjects like math and science.

I'm weird: I like science and math but also like English as well.

American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We're even trailing France.

My older brother was cool, so I was suddenly cool by association. And I totally dusted all my old math friends.

I liked art history. Also liked the gender ratio, especially compared to applied math and physics.

I finished all the math books by third grade and most of the reading books. So I was considered disruptive.

On Venus you could cook a 16-inch pepperoni pizza in seven seconds, just by holding it out to the air. (Yes, I did the math.)

As a woman of color, I've come to rely on straight white men telling me my experience of the world has nothing to do with my gender, race or class. (Unless something good happens to me, in which case they tell me my gender, race and/or class is exactly why that thing happened).

I'd like to see a much more open Monarchy, myself. I used to think they were completely useless and we should get rid of them. I don't necessarily feel that way anymore. I'm still ambivalent, I still loathe the British class system, and the Royal family are the apex of the British class system.

Math can explain the reason there's one out of four chance that I'd have blue eyes. But it doesn't explain why me.

We need to tap the resource of current and retiring science and math professionals that have both content mastery and the practical experience to serve as effective teachers.

I'm someone who thinks that the world would be a better place if there was a big middle class. I mean, middle class is peace. In a perfect world, everybody would have enough to eat and we'd be living in security. It's obvious. I'm very happy to pay my taxes and all that. I would say I'm more of a Social Democrat.

I was very into math and calculus, and just always was very - really interested in that. But any sort of numbers.

I think there really needs to be a culture change because young girls are very interested in math and science, but somewhere along the way, they veer off of that.

The first book I ever wrote was in fourth grade and it was called 'Billy's Booger.' It was an autobiographical piece about a kid who was really bad at math.

If I wanted to be a doctor today I'd go to math school not med school.

I thought, well, you might see curves there, but that's just a bone - so even if I lose weight that's not going to change anything. That's how I look. That's my shape. Do the math.

It is a mistake to suppose that requiring the nonmathematical to take more advanced math courses will enhance their understanding and not merely exacerbate their sense of inadequacy.

We met [with Massimo Pupillo] many years ago in the halcyon days of the underground avant-prog math-rock scene when I was playing in Guapo.

It was just like a digital fixation with cards and math and science and then I started to look at images of great magicians from Houdini down the line.

I was an editor for supplemental math, science, and literature programs for the primary grades and became very well versed in elementary curriculum, particularly PreK-2.

We teach reading, writing and math by [having students do] them. But we teach democracy by lecture.

In school math and science were my favorite subjects, but I probably in my true self I'm more of a people person. At the same time, I don't think that's how I recharge.

Math does come easily to me, but I was always much more interested in what theorems imply about the world than in proving them.

Studies show American students are becoming less proficient in math. Experts say we should have seen this coming, but nobody could put 2 and 2 together.

What's great is that because math is such a universal language, really, our fans come in all shapes and sizes, all ages and genders and races and backgrounds and cultures.

I was always the class clown and got kicked out of class at least once a day for just being a goofball. Not suspended or anything, just sit outside and look at the tree on the bench. I got benched a lot. You keep one foot on the bench and try to get as far away as possible.

I was about six, and Liverpool had a community summer camp. They sent a few invites to my school and my age group, to my class specifically, and they were like, 'Who wants to go?' So every lad in the class put their hands up, as you'd imagine, so the only fair way was to pick names out of a hat, and luckily, my name was picked out.

Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.

If I had the science and math capabilities, I would have liked to be a vet, but I don't! I don't have those capabilities.

I certainly was a geeky kid myself, but to me, math and science were always these magical things- powerful tools you could use in incredible ways.

The math of time is simple: you have less than you think and need more than you know.

I had higher math SATs than in English - yet I became an English major in college.

The schools I went to as a kid made me wary. It was clear to me that everything was a lie except math.

The wedding is the chief ceremony of the middle-class mythology, and it functions as the official entrée of the spouses to their middle-class status. This is the real meaning of saving up to get married. The young couple struggles to set up an image of comfortable life which they will be forced to live up to in the years that follow.

There is number of different efforts around the country are to try to redesign the math pathway and the courses that students have to take to make it more applicable to the real world.

Many schools today are sacrificing social studies, the arts and physical education so children can cover basic subjects like math, English and science.

Today, over half of China's undergraduate degrees are in math, science technology and engineering, yet only 16 percent of America's undergraduates pursue these schools.

I'm not terribly athletic. And... there's a lot of things I'm not good at. And if it makes anybody feel better, I was really a pretty bad math student growing up.

Ideas are things that happen at any time because you're constantly thinking and evaluating life as if it were an eternally unsolvable math problem, which it is.

Physics is the most basic part of science and, of course, math. It gives you insight into everything - a foundation, I should say, to understand nature and the universe.

Let's make math fun and sexy and glamorous. Smart is sexy, that's one of my main messages.

I would say out of all the things I studied growing up, math was probably one of the things that I liked the least.

What I knew was I liked math and science, and I never wanted to memorize everything. I wanted to understand where it came from.

I prefer home-schooling because you can work at your own pace and go towards more what you're interested in, whether it be history or geography or math.

I'm very good at reading people - and very bad at math.

I remember when the O.J. verdict was read; at my high school, all of the teachers were like, "We are stopping class right now," and turned it on and we watched it. There were people coming out of their classrooms, like, "Yeah!" Some people were like, "Nooo." I was in Spanish class.

We can't just throw something out there and assume it works just because it has math in it.

You don't need Math to do business reporting. Business is all about choices that consumers make.

You can count the dead, but you can't count the cost. We've got no math for Heaven.

I would hope that maybe math teachers could use 'Prime Baby' as a way of establishing an emotional connection between students and numbers.

I hope to continue to inspire our nation's youth to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math so they, too, may reach for the stars.

I'm often in conversations with people who have learning disabilities, and they talk about how they were teased and perhaps laughed at sometimes as children. That was never the case with me. Maybe it was something about my personality, my temperament, but I don't ever remember being teased. I remember the awkwardness of leaving class to go to a special class, but that's all.

Class is something that I think seriously about and try to organise my politics around. I think there are lots of novels that don't really engage with questions of class at all, and they get less conversation about issues of social privilege than I do. But it's better to try and talk about it and maybe fail.

We have 2,500 students and an 8,000-seat basketball arena. You do the math on how important basketball is in Aberdeen.