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Math Gym 2012-13
1. “One may be a mathematician of the first rank without being able to compute. [And] it is possible to be a great computer without having the slightest idea of mathematics.
– Novalis
– Novalis
2. “You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.”
- Einstein
- Einstein
3. “The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.”
- Bishop W.C. McGee
- Bishop W.C. McGee
4. “I will love you till the last digit of pi.”
- Unknown
- Unknown
5. “Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.”
- Einstein
- Einstein
6. “The essence of math is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.”
- S. Gudder
- S. Gudder
7. “Pure mathematics is the world’s best game. It’s more absorbing than chess, more of a gamble than poker, and lasts longer than Monopoly. It can be played anywhere – Archimedes did it in a bathtub.”
- Richard J. Trudeau, Dots and Lines
- Richard J. Trudeau, Dots and Lines
8. “It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.”
- James Thurber
- James Thurber
9. "Number is the within of all things"
-- Pythagoras
Math Gym 2011-12
1. “If you think dogs can’t count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then giving Fido
only two of them.”
-Phil Pastoret
only two of them.”
-Phil Pastoret
2. “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”
-Einstein
-Einstein
3. “Arithmetic is being able to count to 20 without taking off your shoes.”
- Mickey Mouse
- Mickey Mouse
4. "There are three kinds of people: those who can count and those who can’t."
- Warren Buffet
- Warren Buffet
5. “He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.”
- Confucius
- Confucius
6. "A dozen, a gross, and a score
Plus three times the square root of four
Divided by seven
Plus five times eleven
Is nine squared and not a bit more."
-Leigh Mercer
*A “gross” is a dozen dozens, or 144. A “score” is 20.
Plus three times the square root of four
Divided by seven
Plus five times eleven
Is nine squared and not a bit more."
-Leigh Mercer
*A “gross” is a dozen dozens, or 144. A “score” is 20.
7. “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
- Einstein
- Einstein
8. “Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.”
- Einstein
- Einstein
9. "Without geometry, life is pointless."
- Unknown
- Unknown
10. “If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn’t call it genius.”
- Michelangelo
- Michelangelo
11. “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
- Thomas Edison
- Thomas Edison
12 “Five out of four people have trouble with fractions. “
- Stephen Wright
- Stephen Wright
13. “The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you can make one.”
- Elbert Hubbard
- Elbert Hubbard
14. “If at first you don’t succeed, you’re like everyone else who went on to greatness.”
- Patrick Combs
- Patrick Combs
15. “Go down deep enough into anything and you will find mathematics.”
- Dean Schlicter
- Dean Schlicter
16. “Mathematics is the only true universal language.”
- Contact
- Contact
17. “Many of life’s failures are people who didn’t know how close they were to success when they gave up.”
- Thomas Edison
- Thomas Edison
18. “42.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.”
- Stephen Wright
- Stephen Wright
19. Mathematics is no more computation than literature is typing.
- Based on a quote by John Allen Paulos
- Based on a quote by John Allen Paulos
20. “All men are created equal. Some just evolve to become mathematicians.”
- Unknown
- Unknown