Math Skills Quotes:

People think that the arts are optional and they aren't. They teach a level of emotional depth that's equally important to mathematic skill. You can replace some math skills with a calculator if you know how to operate the thing, but there's no calculator for human interaction.

- Hal Sparks

topic: Art, Math, Emotional, Math Skills, Calculators

If you're a waiter and you're waiting on me, you might get five percent, you might get seventy percent. It depends on how bad my math skills are that day.

- Kelly Ripa

topic: Math, Skills, Waiting, Math Skills

I wanted to be a scientist. But I had no math skills.

- Terri Windling

topic: Math, Skills, Scientist, Math Skills

Each day millions of children arrive in American classrooms in search of more than reading and math skills. They are looking for a light in the darkness of their lives, a Good Samaritan who will stop and bandage a bruised heart or ego.

- Jim Trelease

topic: Children, Reading, Heart, Samaritans, Math Skills

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.

- Marcus du Sautoy

topic: Math, Opportunity, Skills, Math Skills, Good Math

People are more easily manipulated when they don't have information. If you ensure that kids grow up without basic reading skills, math skills, and so forth, then you ensure that they can't act effectively.

- Tony Kushner

source: "Tony Kushner, Radical Pragmatist". Interview with Ben Greenman, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2003.

topic: Growing Up, Reading, Kids, Math Skills

In addition to giving our children the science and math skills they need to compete in the new global context, we should also encourage the ability to think creatively that comes from a meaningful arts education.

- Barack Obama

source: "President’s Committee Makes Strongest Case Ever for Arts Education" by John M. Eger, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2011.

topic: Meaningful, Art, Children, Math Skills, Art Education

A lot of young girls don't realise how diverse the career opportunities are in games development. Many think that you need elite math skills and a vast knowledge of all things tech to work in games, and haven't thought about avenues like design, producing, art, writing or composing.

- Rhianna Pratchett

topic: Girl, Art, Writing, Math Skills, Career Opportunities

It only takes about 50 contact hours to transmit basic literacy and math skills well enough that kids can be self-teachers from then on. The cry for 'basic skills' practice is a smokescreen behind which schools pre-empt the time of children for twelve years and teach them the six lessons I've just taught you.

- John Taylor Gatto

topic: Teacher, Children, School, Math Skills