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Quotes About Maths

Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It's a universal language; numbers belong to everyone.
~ Daniel Tammet
What did we know? This was early days. We had no idea what was out there. How dangerous it might be. It was just a school maths problem. They never asked that in the exams, did they? Like, "If John walks at three miles an hour from London to Brighton, and he's attacked by rabid grown-ups four times, and they bite his right leg off, how long will it take him to bleed to death?
~ Charlie Higson
I guess teaching maths at Chandan Classes didn't keep me as fit as when I was the volleyball captain at IIT Delhi.
~ Chetan Bhagat
Maths is like learning a language: you need to learn the basics to get going, but a lot of adults go into blind panic about numbers and switch off.
~ Rachel Riley
Working is bad enough in the winter, but in the summer it can become completely intolerable. Stuck in airless offices, every fibre of our being seems to cry out for freedom. We're reminded of being stuck in double maths while the birds sing outside.
~ Tom Hodgkinson
That you can work and work to build up your bank balance and then end up spending it all to outsource your life, buying back your sanity and bribing yourself to keep on going. Over a certain basic threshold, it's simple life maths: Fewer new shiny things = fewer hours overtime = happier life.
~ Helen Russell
Yes, but you need to learn your maths." "I don't need to, really. I already know how to count to a hundred. And I'm sure I'll never need ore than a hundred of anything.
~ Lisa Kleypas
I was OK in school, but I always missed a lot because I was playing so much. But if I'd stuck at it, I imagine that I'd be doing something financial or economical. Finance always attracted me, even though maths was always a bit of a love-hate relationship. I would have tried playing football, but I don't think I'd have made it.
~ Matteo Manassero
The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.
~ Ken Robinson
Students shy away from Maths, but in reality Maths is the best friend of man.
~ Shakuntala Devi
More than other subjects, there's a myth that you have to be an absolute genius to be good at maths and to enjoy it, so I think it's less accessible for people. Even the word 'maths' makes people screw their face up. They do the maths face.
~ Rachel Riley
My subjects were maths and physics. I truly appreciate the value in sciences, but understand the difficulty finding and retaining teachers for these subjects, especially when most of my Imperial cohort ended up as management consultants or in finance.
~ Layla Moran
As Josephs and his colleagues point out, 'through its hierarchical ordering of two or more groups, a stereotype is essentially a statement about dominance or status.' When the stereotype of women's inferiority in maths is made salient, a woman doing a maths test is at risk of confirming her lower status in the hierarchy of numeracy.
~ Unknown
Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically.
~ Frank Ocean
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~ Unknown
I enjoy things that are relevant to me, like maths and science and 'Countdown,' and I don't want to offend our viewers.
~ Rachel Riley
the really hard ones, just bring them right to me.' 'And what will you do, Papà, tell me how you can't help because maths is so different from when you went to school?' Chiara asked with a laugh. 'Isn't that what I always do with your maths homework, cara?
~ Donna Leon
He taught only one class: 'Unlikely Maths'. But since the time was listed as "now" and the place, "everywhere," this was hardly helpful in tracking him down.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
I discovered he only taught one class: Unlikely Maths. However, this was less than helpful in tracking him down, as according to the ledger, the time of the class was "now" and the location was
~ Patrick Rothfuss
We found that the self-affirmation writing task improved maths performance for free-school-meal students only, closing the existing achievement gap between these two groups by 50 per cent over the course of the year.
~ Unknown