Quotes having the keyword Math
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.
by Major Owens (Politician, American , born in 1936) keywords: able, answers, areas, educational, especially, ever, get, going, kind, long, math, more, need, our, personnel, problem, quality, school, schools, science, technology, think, time , use 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.
by William Petersen (Actor, American , born in 1953) keywords: complete, cool, graduate, grissom, horrible, life, math, opposite, pass, role, save, science, surprised, take, test, until , why I never made a career decision based solely on my desire to be an astronaut. I attended the Naval Academy because I wanted to be a Navy pilot. I majored in math because math had always come pretty easily to me and I liked it.
by John L. Phillips (Astronaut, American , born in 1951) keywords: academy, always, astronaut, attended, based, because, career, come, decision, desire, easily, had, liked, made, majored, math, naval, navy, never, pilot, pretty, solely , wanted The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends of higher education.
by Jodi Rell (Politician, American , born in 1946) keywords: benefit, best, college, dividends, education, higher, increase, lesson, math, students, subtract, teach, tuition , year I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science.
by Sally Ride (Astronaut, American , born in 1951) keywords: astronomy, favorite, interested, liked, math, physical, science, subject , very Just do the math. In the next 50 to 75 years, people will be living to be 130 and 140. They'll be working until they're 100. It's incredible.
by Willard Scott (Entertainer, American , born in 1934) keywords: incredible, just, living, math, next, until, will, working , years I didn't mind studying. Obviously math and the physical science subjects interested me more than some of the more artistic subjects, but I think I was a pretty good student.
by Alan Shepard (Astronaut, American , born in 1923) keywords: artistic, good, interested, math, mind, more, obviously, physical, pretty, science, some, student, studying, subjects, than , think I'd never been a teacher before, and here I was starting my first day with these eager students. There was a shortage of teachers, and they had been without a math teacher for six months. They were so excited to learn math.
by Andrew Shue (Actor, American , born in 1967) keywords: been, before, day, eager, excited, first, had, here, learn, math, months, never, shortage, six, starting, students, teacher, teachers, these, were , without In the early days, I often felt that I was taking a math test when we were playing. It was a profound feeling of having to prove myself.
by Chris Steinkeywords: days, early, feeling, felt, having, math, myself, often, playing, profound, prove, taking, test , were I've taught statistics, math courses and what I've found is that often if you teach them algebraically the formulas, you'll have one group of kids doing well.
by Robert Sternberg (Educator, American , born in 1949) keywords: courses, doing, formulas, found, group, kids, math, often, statistics, taught, teach, them , well I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.
by Calvin Trillin (Journalist, American , born in 1935) topics: Imagination keywords: answers, could, did, hadn, literally, math, meant, never, persuade, seem, teacher, very , well My favorite subject probably was math. I love math. Figures just intrigue me. I was really good at math. English probably was my worst subject. But I used to write a lot of poetry. I used to write poetry all the time.
by Herschel Walker (Athlete, American , born in 1962) keywords: english, favorite, figures, good, intrigue, just, lot, love, math, poetry, probably, really, subject, time, used, worst , write I've actually become much, much dumber through being married and having these children. I find that I'm not half as sharp that I once was. I can't even help them with their 4th and 5th grade vocabulary and math work at this point.
by Patrick Warburton (Actor, American , born in 1964) keywords: actually, become, being, children, dumber, even, find, grade, half, having, help, married, math, much, once, point, sharp, their, them, these, through, vocabulary , work We've lost something that's been with us for so long, and something that drew a lot of us into mathematics. But perhaps that's always the way with math problems, and we just have to find new ones to capture our attention.
by Andrew Wiles (Mathematician, English , born in 1953) keywords: always, attention, been, capture, drew, find, into, just, long, lost, lot, math, mathematics, new, ones, our, perhaps, problems, something, us , way And by the same token, I appreciate math, because I can't do math. If I have to read a map or figure out the tip on a restaurant bill, I might start to tear up a little bit.
by Thomas Wilsonkeywords: appreciate, because, bill, bit, figure, little, map, math, might, out, read, restaurant, same, start, tear, tip, token , up The fact that the same symbolic programming primitives work for those as work for math kinds of things, I think, really validates the idea of symbolic programming being something pretty general.
by Stephen Wolfram (Scientist, English , born in 1959) keywords: being, fact, general, idea, kinds, math, pretty, programming, really, same, something, symbolic, things, think, those, validates , work