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This much I'm sure of. Chances for winning = 1 - (# of math students playing)/ (# of math students cheering). That's a fraction. -- Danica McKellar
Students shy away from Maths, but in reality Maths is the best friend of man. -- Shakuntala Devi
During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry. -- Rudolph A. Marcus
Math proficiency is the gateway to a number of incredible careers that students may never have considered. -- Danica McKellar
Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know. -- John Deacon
American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We're even trailing France. -- Suzanne Fields
I was an undergrad math major and a grad student in computer science. I'm hugely introverted, not atypical of math majors. -- Judith Faulkner
The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education. -- Ken Robinson
I would hope that maybe math teachers could use 'Prime Baby' as a way of establishing an emotional connection between students and numbers. -- Gene Luen Yang
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. -- Jodi Rell
When general relativity was first put forward in 1915, the math was very unfamiliar to most physicists. Now we teach general relativity to advanced high school students. -- Brian Greene
Common Core, the initiative that claims to more accurately measure K-12 student knowledge in English and math, also encourages children to step up their 'critical thinking.' -- David Harsanyi
We must be willing to pay inspiring math and science teachers, who have high paying alternatives in industry, more to teach and reward students who take more challenging courses in high school. -- Mark Kennedy
Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students' math and language skills and improve test scores which in turn increase chances of higher education and good jobs in the future. -- Thad Cochran
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! -- Shakuntala Devi
Math and science fields are not the only areas where we see the United States lagging behind. Less than 1 percent of American high school students study the critical foreign languages of Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Russian, combined. -- Cathy McMorris Rodgers
Nothing you'll read as breaking news will ever hold a candle to the sheer beauty of settled science. Textbook science has carefully phrased explanations for new students, math derived step by step, plenty of experiments as illustration, and test problems. -- Eliezer Yudkowsky
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. -- Andrew Shue
My background is economics and maths. I think one of the reasons I studied humanities at all, or even went into journalism, is because, like, science and maths wasn't cool in England when I was growing up. No one ever talked to the engineering students at Oxford. -- Nick Denton
I tell students that even if they don't like math right now, they can use math as a brain-sharpening tool - a tool that not only builds the foundation for a great career, but that also builds self-confidence, no matter what they choose to do with their lives. -- Danica McKellar
We teach reading, writing and math by [having students do] them. But we teach democracy by lecture. -- Shelley Berman
Students coming from father-present families score higher in math and science even when they come from weaker schools. -- Warren Farrell
We have 2,500 students and an 8,000-seat basketball arena. You do the math on how important basketball is in Aberdeen. -- Don Meyer
Studies show American students are becoming less proficient in math. Experts say we should have seen this coming, but nobody could put 2 and 2 together. -- Jay Leno
[Math] curriculum is obsessed with jargon and nomenclature seemingly for no other purpose than to provide teachers with something to test the students on. -- Paul Lockhart
Learning through the arts reinforces critical academic skills in reading, language arts and math and provides students with the skills to creatively solve problems. -- Michelle Obama
We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they'll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year. -- Bill Gates

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