At the fourth grade level, girls at the same percentages of boys say they're interested in careers in engineering or math or astrophysics, but by eighth grade that has dropped precipitously.
I was a normal human being, but I did like that. I read a lot. I also liked math and science.
I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science.
Math was my big interest when I was in prep school. I was considering taking math in college, and majoring in it.
I don't think that everyone should become a mathematician, but I do believe that many students don't give mathematics a real chance.
I was a math guy as a kid. I was really good at math. I wasn't particularly interested in it.
Math does come easily to me, but I was always much more interested in what theorems imply about the world than in proving them.
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 think there really needs to be a culture change because young girls are very interested in math and science, but somewhere along the way, they veer off of that.
I can't stop biting my nails. It's a bad habit of mine. I like anything to do with math and numbers. I know a lot of people don't like geometry, but for me it's fun.
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.
I'm not a math-head.
I was very into math and calculus, and just always was very - really interested in that. But any sort of numbers.
I did grow up with a really big interest in math and science; I liked it.
I can become very emotional about math, although I'm not that good at it.
I went through a period of time when math was my favorite subject. Then math wasn't as fun so much.
People in the media and press often say they've never been good at math. It might be that people that consider themselves creative didn't consider themselves good at math or didn't find math interesting at those early stages. And those creative people are disproportionately represented in those influential roles.
