I'm tired of being 51st in this country on the NEAP scores on fourth-grade math. We don't have but 50 states.
We have a culture where it’s OK to not know anything about mathematics whereas in Asia, they don’t
Even when a man and a woman perform equally well in a task - say, solving math problems - men are more willing to enter competitions based on that task. Men also show less risk aversion.
I was performing at a New Jersey high school, and I asked a class of 2,000 students, 'How many of you love mathematics?' and only one hand went up. And that was the hand of the maths teacher!
I studied math, and I was terrible at it.
I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.
I did poorly in math for a couple of years in middle school; I was just not interested in thinking about it.
At school, I wasn't as interested in mathematics. I did OK, but at the earliest point I could stop doing math, I stopped.
I was very bad at mathematics in school, and I always had the feeling as a kid that when I worked on problems, that I would be wrong.
Women, girls and young ladies tend to be as good or better at math than boys, but you didn't think that either.
