Math Problem Quotes

#1. Take a random group of 8-year-old American and Japanese kids, give them all a really, really hard math problem, and start a stopwatch. The American kids will give up after 30, 40 seconds. If you let the test run for 15 minutes, the Japanese kids will not have given up. You have to take it away.

Malcolm Gladwell

#2. If you're having trouble with a math problem, plug the equation into WolframAlpha and it will solve it for you.

Keith Bradford

#3. But you know the minute I graduated high school I never looked at a single math problem again, right? I send everything with numbers on it to my accountant, or I make Michael deal with it." "Great. Spoken like a true feminist,

Meg Cabot

#4. I'm not a math problem." "But I'll still solve you." Neil

Nora Sakavic

#5. Tengo has an innate knack for precision in all realms, including correct punctuation and discovering the simplest possible formula necessary to solve a math problem.

Haruki Murakami

#6. The Tour (de France) is essentially a math problem, a 2,000-mile race over three weeks that's sometimes won by a margin of a minute or less. How do you propel yourself through space on a bicycle, sometimes steeply uphill, at a speed sustainable for three weeks? Every second counts.

Lance Armstrong

#7. We don't have a gun problem; we have a math problem: ZERO GUNS = ZERO GUN-RELATED DEATHS.

Quentin R. Bufogle

#8. You can't fix people like you can solve a math problem.

Wendy Brant

#9. If I were to try and find a unifying emotion that kept me calm and focused while I was dancing or writing or solving a math problem, I think the one unifying thing about all those that keeps my interest is creativity.

Catherine Asaro

#10. One must acknowledge with cryptography no amount of violence will ever solve a math problem.

Jacob Appelbaum

#11. merely changing how a math problem is presented on a page can change how your brain goes about solving it,

Sian Beilock

#12. ... I just figured it would be easier to do the math problem with the numbers in the correct colors.

Wendy Mass

#13. *** Teacher: "Why are you on the floor?" Johnny: "Because you said to do this math problem without tables!

Various

#14. He stared back like I was an advanced math problem he couldn't interpret.

Mia Sheridan

#15. I hate the idea that, when it comes to books and learning, hard is often seen as the opposite of fun. It's strange to me that we should be so quick to give up on a book or a math problem when we are so willing to grapple, for centuries if necessary, with a single level of Angry Birds.

John Green

#16. The value of a problem is not so much coming up with the answer as in the ideas and attempted ideas it forces on the would be solver.

Israel Nathan Herstein

#17. The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.

Albert Einstein

#18. Best thing about mathematics is that it teach us to love the problem.

Vitthal Jadhav

#19. It is impossible to overstate the imporance of problems in mathematics. It is by means of problems that mathematics develops and actually lifts itself by its own bootstraps ... Every new discovery in mathematics, results from an attempt to solve some problem.

Howard Whitley Eves

#20. He who cannot describe the problem will never find the solution to that problem.

Confucius

#21. Somehow life had become a story problem, and William was horrible at math.

Jamie Ford

#22. Really, there was only one problem with Mr. Davis, as far as Gregory was concerned; He taught math.

Greg Pincus

#23. Whatever your problems in math are, I assure mine are greater.

Albert Einstein

#24. All problems in mathematics are psychological.

Pierre Deligne

#25. The steps to solving a problem, from elementary math to breaking out of a police station, remained the same.

V.E Schwab

#26. Detest it [a certain difficult mathematics problem] just as much as lewd intercourse; it can deprive you of all your leisure, your health, your rest, and the whole happiness of your life.

Farkas Bolyai

#27. Focused problem solving in math and science is often more effortful than focused-mode thinking involving language and people.

Barbara Oakley

#28. That's calculus in a nutshell. It takes a problem that can't be done with regular math because things are constantly changing - the changing quantities show up on a graph as curves - it zooms in on the curve till it becomes straight, and then it finishes off the problem with regular math.

Mark Ryan

#29. Environment-based education produces student gains in social studies, science, language arts, and math; improves standardized test scores and grade-point averages; and develops skills in problem-solving, critical thinking, and decision-making.

Richard Louv

#30. I do not think we are ever going to be able to, for a long time, get the kind of quality of school personnel that we need in our schools, especially in the areas of science and math. One of the answers to that problem is to use more educational technology.

Major Owens

#31. It appears that the solution of the problem of time and space is reserved to philosophers who, like Leibniz, are mathematicians, or to mathematicians who, like Einstein, are philosophers.

Hans Reichenbach

#32. Grades can matter, especially for those students and parents who live for the next round of applications to graduate or professional schools. But there's a problem with the grade emphasis. Math or science graduates earn more than students majoring in the humanities.

Amity Shlaes

#33. Mathematicians need to understand a problem only for themselves; math teachers need both to know the math and to know how 30 different minds might understand (or misunderstand) it. Then they need to take each mind from not getting it to mastery. And they need to do this in 45 minutes or less.

Elizabeth Green

#34. I'm a good example of wanting to apologize only for my precise share of a problem
as I calculate it, of course
and I expect my husband Steve to apologize for his share, also as I calculate it. Since we're not always of one mind on the math, it can lead to the theater of the absurd.

Harriet Lerner

#35. Littlewood, on Hardy's own estimate, is the finest mathematician he has ever known. He was the man most likely to storm and smash a really deep and formidable problem; there was no one else who could command such a combination of insight, technique and power.

Henry Hallett Dale

#36. If there is a problem you can't solve, then there is an easier problem you can't solve: find it.

George Polya

#37. I think there are dozens or hundreds of different forms of creativity. Pondering science and math problems for years is different from improvising jazz. Something which seems to me remarkable is how unconscious the creative process is. You encounter a problem, but can't solve it.

Oliver Sacks

#38. I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

#39. Although Math can't teach us how to add love or minus hate, it teaches us that every problem has a solution

Anonymous

#40. It can often be profitable to try a technique on a problem even if you know in advance that it cannot possibly solve the problem completely.

Terence Tao

#41. Rachel bit her lip. I hope you're right. I'm a little worried. What if someone asks what's on the next math test and I start spouting a prophecy in the middle of geometry class? The Pythagorean theorem shall be problem two ... Gods, that would be embarrassing.

Rick Riordan

#42. Q and Beanpole and I giggled at the way our math teacher, Mr. Sung-Li, wore four pencils in his shirt pocket in case he was suddenly attacked by a multiplication problem or something.

Alan Sitomer

#43. Andrew's kissing Amanda again, her back pinned against the door frame, his hands working through a geometry problem where the goal is to find the point of intersection where two legs bisect. People would like math so much more if it involved real life like that.

Julia Kent

#44. 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.

Danica McKellar