Math Quotes
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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.
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Success in math and the hard sciences, far from being a matter of gender, is almost entirely dependent on culture - a culture that teaches girls math isn't cool and no one will date them if they excel in physics.
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The United States must produce more students interested in math and science in order for our Nation to excel in an increasingly global economy.
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Common Core, the initiative that claims to more accurately measure K-12 student knowledge in English and math, also encourages children to step up their 'critical thinking.'
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Colleges accept the highest sub-scores from different administrations. So if a student takes the SAT many times instead of once, she has a larger pool of scores from which to pick out the highest math, critical reading, and writing.
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All analysts spend half their time hunting through the literature for inequalities which they want to use and cannot prove.
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One minute I was playing chess and doing maths all the time, the next I had been rerouted into more 'normal' girls' activities: reading, writing stories and worrying about my clothes.
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I dislike math, yet I respect and appreciate the fact that math is the language of the universe.
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Ride-sharing is one of the biggest math problems that's ever been approached, that's ever been attempted to be solved.
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I loved math. I was such a nerd! I really enjoyed working through problems and finding the solution.
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I got into writing and thinking about politics because I was told there would be no math.
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You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.
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I did math in school, obviously. And I loved all my math teachers.
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Looking at numbers as groups of rocks may seem unusual, but actually it's as old as math itself. The word "calculate" reflects that legacy - it comes from the Latin word calculus, meaning a pebble used for counting. To enjoy working with numbers you don't have to be Einstein (German for "one stone"), but it might help to have rocks in your head.
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Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.
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Many schools today are sacrificing social studies, the arts and physical education so children can cover basic subjects like math, English and science.
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If you're a waiter and you're waiting on me, you might get five percent, you might get seventy percent. It depends on how bad my math skills are that day.
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Science and math are hard for everybody, and it's usually not a matter or being born gifted at it or not. It's hard work, but it can be a lot of fun!
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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.
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Is this just math that you do as a Republican to make yourself feel better. or is this real?
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There was a young fellow from Trinity, Who took the square root of infinity. But the number of digits, Gave him the fidgets; He dropped Math and took up Divinity.
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Spending when the math's not there and the numbers aren't there and if they look in the social security trust fund, it's filled with IOUs because the government's been pilfering it for years on end. We have to do something. We have to start having this discussion.
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I was horrible at science and math. I couldn't pass a test to save my life! I'm surprised that it didn't take me until I was 20 to graduate. That's why my role is so cool - Grissom is the complete opposite of me.
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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.
