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 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.
The U.S. ranks 25th in math and 21st in science. We are woefully behind. The only way to change this situation is through public-private partnerships.
I didn't really think about becoming a professional artist until high school, when I realized that everything else required too much math.
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.
Although I was first drawn to math and science by the certainty they promised, today I find the unanswered questions and the unexpected connections at least as attractive.
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 couldn't pass a senior high school math test right now, but I could probably teach intellectual property and trademark law at Harvard.
I'm weird: I like science and math but also like English as well.
Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.
I continued to study Math and Physics on my own, but one and a half years later I realized that I did want to be a composer, and after that I never changed my mind.
I was kind of a nerdy, geeky type. And I loved math. People teased me about it. I felt pretty much like an outcast.
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.
What I knew was I liked math and science, and I never wanted to memorize everything. I wanted to understand where it came from.
If I wanted to be a doctor today I'd go to math school not med school.
American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We're even trailing France.
Let's make math fun and sexy and glamorous. Smart is sexy, that's one of my main messages.
We can't just throw something out there and assume it works just because it has math in it.
I was very into math and calculus, and just always was very - really interested in that. But any sort of numbers.
In order for America to remain a global leader in innovation and opportunity, we must give our children a solid foundation in math and science.
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 very good at reading people - and very bad at math.
If you love math, have a knack for numbers, study hard and become a successful accountant; who cares if you can't draw a straight line or sing on key?
I had accepted a job being a math teacher for Teach For America. So, that's what I would have done at least in the two years after I graduated.
Males and females can both have a fixed mindset about math and science, but it hurts girls more because they are on the negative end of the stereotype.
My wife was pregnant, and I was doing the math, and I was realizing that I couldn't be living in a two-bedroom apartment in Hollywood for the rest of my days. I didn't want to raise my kid there.
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.
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.
I've always loved maths, so in college when I started engineering, I had applied math and I really liked it, so I overloaded my courses and did two degrees.
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.
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.
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.
Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind.
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.
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.
I liked art history. Also liked the gender ratio, especially compared to applied math and physics.
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.
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.
Someone has remarked that 'An ideal math talk should have one proof and one joke and they should not be the same'.
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.
The schools I went to as a kid made me wary. It was clear to me that everything was a lie except math.
My older brother was cool, so I was suddenly cool by association. And I totally dusted all my old math friends.
I would say out of all the things I studied growing up, math was probably one of the things that I liked the least.
The flaw in, say, austerity, is that its success is predicated on the relative exactitude of math rather than the shifting, liquid imperfection of peoples lives.
You can't plan the kind of deep love that results in children. Fatherhood was not a conscious decision. It was part of the wonderful ride I was on. All the math finally worked.
I wasn't that good at science, and I gave up on math long before I should have. I like to think if I were in school today that would be different.
I would hope that maybe math teachers could use 'Prime Baby' as a way of establishing an emotional connection between students and numbers.
You don't need Math to do business reporting. Business is all about choices that consumers make.
I had higher math SATs than in English - yet I became an English major in college.
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 I think the resistance to this is very variable.
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.)
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.
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.
We teach reading, writing and math by [having students do] them. But we teach democracy by lecture.
When I found Freestyle Fellowship, I started getting into the construction of rap. You get better at it the more you do it; you figure out the science and the math behind it.
I have been involved with science and math education my whole life. My hope is to continue to promote the love of these beautiful disciplines to the next generation.
We have 2,500 students and an 8,000-seat basketball arena. You do the math on how important basketball is in Aberdeen.
Math does come easily to me, but I was always much more interested in what theorems imply about the world than in proving them.
The math of time is simple: you have less than you think and need more than you know.
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