Madison Davenport Quotes

Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.

I loved math. I was such a nerd! I really enjoyed working through problems and finding the solution.

Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.

I'm precise. I think in proportions. I play games with numbers, and I proportionalise.

Some people are great at the pure mathematical things - like Bill Gates, he's great at math things. He loves to do puzzles. Me, I like to look at an overall landscape and try to figure out, how do you solve a problem?

Math makes sense when you apply it to projects.

The point is with good maths skills you have just wonderful opportunities and if you don't have good maths skills, there are just so many things that you won't be able to do.

To solve math problems, you need to know the basic mathematics before you can start applying it.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

I've always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing any idea.

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.

An ounce of algebra is worth of a ton of verbal argument.

Growing up in Delhi, India, I did puzzles, explored numbers, and searched for patterns in everyday settings long before I ever saw an equation.

I like science and mathematics. When I say mathematics, I don't mean algebra or math in that sense, but the mathematics of things.

I would say out of all the things I studied growing up, math was probably one of the things that I liked the least.

It's strange how few of the world's great problems are solved by people who remember their algebra.

And if you take one from three hundred and sixty-five what remains?" "Three hundred and sixty-four, of course." Humpty Dumpty looked doubtful, "I'd rather see that done on paper," he said.

Mathematics ... is indispensable as an intellectual technique. In many subjects, to think at all is to think like a mathematician.

And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics.

Maths should be more practical and more conceptual, but less mechanical.

Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition.

When student performance shows increases on test scores, that improvement is not associated with an increase in 'fluid intelligence' - that is, using logical thinking and problem solving in novel situations, rather than recalling previously learned facts and skills.

My dad is a mathematician; I think we both have that problem-solving, looking-for-patterns way of thinking.

I was never good at math.

At three, I fell in love with numbers. It was sheer ecstasy for me to do sums and get the right answers. Numbers were toys with which I could play.