Clarence Thomas Quotes

I worry about Las Vegas schools. I hear in math, they only teach them to count to 21.

At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book.

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

Fifty percent of our high schools do not even offer calculus—no one in those schools can take calculus.

When, in school, they were teaching algebra, I was studying differential equations at home.

... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).

Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!

Yes, I was really good in physics and in math.

Mathematics is written for mathematicians.

Without mathematics, there's nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.

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

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.

Early in my career, I wanted to be a mathematician.

Go to a job interview and tell and employer that you can recite the 17 times table; they don't care. Why are we still teaching it?

It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.

It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.

Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

In school, my favorite subject was math. That's where I learned to count money.

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

No one wants to read a math book.

Logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.

By seventh grade, I was committed to mathematics.

I got good grades in math, but I never really enjoyed it. My favorite part of math was algebra, but geometry was the worst.

I have been running maths clubs for children completely free. In my building in Bangalore, I conduct maths clubs for several months, and every child who attended the club was poor in mathematics and is now showing brilliant results.

Every math curriculum in the world is based on the idea of hand-calculating, and most of what you're teaching is how to calculate. And I think the resistance to this is very variable.