Math Understanding Quotes

You know, I'm not terribly fast at my times tables, because that's not what I think mathematics is about.

I don't think that everyone should become a mathematician, but I do believe that many students don't give mathematics a real chance.

We have a culture where it’s OK to not know anything about mathematics whereas in Asia, they don’t

A lot of times, when kids have problems with algebra or trigonometry, it has nothing to do with the subject matter, has nothing to do with their innate intelligence. It's just they that they had some gaps in elementary school that they never got to fill in.

Being bad at maths shouldn't be something to brag about, and I'm glad people are waking up to this, but there's no reason be embarrassed to look for help when it comes to numeracy.

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

The toughest thing for a homeschooler is the same as for a school teacher - shifting from a weak tea vision of math being grinding calculations to a rich frothy mug of math as an active way of thinking.

Math just wasn't my favorite. I didn't get how important math is and how it relates to real life. That's why I think I was turned off to it. Once I got down arithmetic and a little bit of algebra, I think I checked out. As I've gotten older, I think there's a lot more relation to math. English was my favorite subject.

I did poorly in math for a couple of years in middle school; I was just not interested in thinking about it.

I'm not a math-head.

I'm the 'Dear Abby' of math problems. But if you understand something, shouldn't you be able to explain it? Isn't that the whole point?