Top 1055 Math Quotes & Sayings - Page 6
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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.
There's no reason to stereotype yourself. Doing math is like going to the gym - it's a workout for your brain and it makes you smarter.
I'm not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living.
My favorite subjects was science and math. But as I got older, I was hanging out cutting class, going to hooky parties.
Your faith is very important. I have done the math, and you are going to be dead a whole lot longer that you will be alive.
But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer.
Being a musician, there aren't that many ways for me to consciously use a more strategy, math-based part of my brain.
I got a degree in math, from not a good school in Texas, and then I went to work as a software engineer. Just not glamorous at all.
As Congress battles over spending and cost cutting, it is imperative that funding for math education programs does not fall victim.
[Math] curriculum is obsessed with jargon and nomenclature seemingly for no other purpose than to provide teachers with something to test the students on.
When I was in graduate school in consumer science and math, all of the big companies had labs, all doing blue sky research.
I guess the approach to song writing for me so far has been to use more chords and less math.
There is something very pleasing about the principles of science and the rules of math, because they are so inevitable and so harmonious - in the abstract, anyway.
As convenient as that would be to make it easier to communicate with more prolific musicians, I don't want to think of music like a math equation.
You still hear this perception that boys are good at math and girls are not, and it's not cool and it's not interesting. And I think we have to shift the culture. It's so deeply entrenched in who we are.
When I was growing up, I always knew I'd be in the top of my class in math, and that gave me a lot of self-confidence.
Political journalists, socially inept or no, are not nerds. Most of them can't do math, a fact that campaigns and politicians regularly exploit.
Somehow it's O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, 'I never learned to read,' they'd say I was an illiterate dolt.
The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends of higher education.
I send my kids to school not only to learn how to read and write and do math, but also to develop socially.
Students coming from father-present families score higher in math and science even when they come from weaker schools.
The flaw in, say, austerity, is that its success is predicated on the relative exactitude of math rather than the shifting, liquid imperfection of people's lives.
If I had my choice, every high school would be teaching financial literacy along with math and science.
At school, I wasn't as interested in mathematics. I did OK, but at the earliest point I could stop doing math, I stopped.
A lot of the math that I do, it's not sort of premeditated. I talk online or with a colleague, and I get interested, and I just follow where it leads.
Iraq was home of the Abbasid Caliphate, a golden age when the Muslim world was at the forefront of math, science and medicine.
I loved problems on paper, and I was good at math, but I was a mechanical engineer, and I never understood - or cared to - how a car worked.
I would encourage anybody who's interested in any kind of science, engineering, math field, to go after that.
When I was in school, I liked math because all the problems had answers. Everything else seemed very subjective.
Before I came out, people always asked me math questions. But once I became a woman, they stopped. There's unintended discrimination.
Our eyes met in the math class. How were we to know that trigonometry would lead to matrimony?
I went off to college planning to major in math or philosophy-- of course, both those ideas are really the same idea.
In the early days, I often felt that I was taking a math test when we were playing. It was a profound feeling of having to prove myself.
You can go your whole life and not need math or physics for a minute, but the ability to tell a joke is always handy.
Math is a language that you use to describe statistics, but really it's about collecting information and putting it in an order that makes sense.
When I was 18, science, physics, and math were my favorite. I was a bit of a nerd - the only girl with a lot of boys at chess championships.
The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.
It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
We need all hands on deck, and that means clearing hurdles for women and girls as they navigate careers in science, technology, engineering, and math.
My kids used to love math. Now it makes them cry. Thanks standardized testing and common core!
We couldn't be happier that the show has encouraged kids to have an interest in science and math, but we don't try to do that. We just have fun, which is its own bold statement.
Just do the math. In the next 50 to 75 years, people will be living to be 130 and 140. They'll be working until they're 100. It's incredible.
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.
It's probably indicative that I was destined for an academic career that I'm 6-5 and I lost the slam-dunk championship to somebody 5-8. I was a lot better at math.
I worry about Las Vegas schools. I hear in math, they only teach them to count to 21.
Women, girls and young ladies tend to be as good or better at math than boys, but you didn't think that either.
My character, Taylor McKessie, is a little bit brighter in the math and science department than I am... okay, a lot.
Math anxiety: an intense lifelong fear of two trains approaching each other at speeds of 60 and 80 MPH.
I came from a family of scientists. My father is a microbiologist and my grandfather is an organic chemist. I had a very science- and math-heavy childhood.
When I was in school I liked math because all the problems had answers. Everything else seemed very subjective.
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 doing well.
I never got a pass mark in math ... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books.
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 single year.
I think there's no way they should have to teach [math] now. We have computers. We no longer need to know why 3x = 2y/4.
One thing is for sure: most of the people admitting candidates to universities for technical subjects are pretty dissatisfied with the level of math education.
Later in the fifties I got involved in kinetic studies using my long forgotten math background.
Let's face it; by and large math is not easy, but that's what makes it so rewarding when you conquer a problem, and reach new heights of understanding.
I'm a mathematician, basically. What I do is look around for problems where I can find useful applications for mathematics. All I do, really, is the math, and other people have the ideas.
Chess is a great training ground for poker players because it's a math-based game, much like backgammon is.
It is the public that is illiterate in science and math, a lazy press, and environmental advocacy groups that manufacture fear for misconceptions about energy.
