MATH QUOTE

The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make
complicated things simple. ~S. Gudder

The human mind has never invented a labor-saving machine equal to algebra.
~Author Unknown

The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course
of ages, they may always advance and can never recede. ~Edward Gibbon, Decline
and Fall of the Roman Empire

Go down deep enough into anything and you will find mathematics. ~Dean Schlicter

It is not the job of mathematicians... to do correct arithmetical operations. It is

the job of bank accountants. ~Samuil Shchatunovski

Trigonometry is a sine of the times. ~Author Unknown

Mathematics is not a careful march down a well-cleared highway, but a journey into
a strange wilderness, where the explorers often get lost. Rigour should be a signal
to the historian that the maps have been made, and the real explorers have gone
elsewhere. ~W.S. Anglin

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. ~Paul Erdos

Let us grant that the pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human
spirit, a refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings. ~Alfred North
Whitehead
 MATH POEM

Skip count, skip count, count by 2's

Skip count, skip count, count by 2's
Skip count, skip count, count by 2's
We can count to 20.
2, 4, 6, 8, 10,12,14,16, 18, 20 (chant this line)

Skip count, skip count, count by 5's

Skip count, skip count, count by 5's
Skip count, skip count, count by 5's
We can count to 50.
5, 10, 15, 20, (up to 50)

Skip count, skip count, count by 10's

Skip count, skip count, count by 10's
Skip count, skip count, count by 10's
We can count to 100.
10, 20, 30, 40, (up to 100)
 MATH TRIVIA
Q: What digit did Arab mathematician al-Khwarizmi give to the West around 800
B/B.?
A: Zero.
Q: What word describes a number system with a base of two?
A: Binary.
Q: How many equal sides does an icosahedron have?
A: Twenty.
Q: What do mathematicians call a regular polygon with eight sides?
A: An octagon.
Q: What T-word is defined in geometry as "a straight line that touches a curve
but continues on with crossing it"?
A: Tangent.
Q: What geometrical shape forms the hole that fits and allen wrench?
A: The hexagon.
Q: What number is an improper fraction always greater than?
A: One.
Q: What two letters are both symbols for 1,000?
A: K and M.
Q: What's short for "binary digit"?
A: Bit.
Q: What century did mathematicians first use plus and minus signs?
A: The sixteenth.
Q: What number, a one followed by 100 zeros, was first used by nine-year-old
Milton Sirotta in 1940?
A: Googol.

MATH PRAYER

Lord teach me to number my days

And graph them according to your ways
 Trusting you to base me in my plan
To complement your perfect diagram
Subtract the points you do not want from me
But add the values you have set for me
Divide the dividends I possess accordingly
So I can multiply them systematically.
Draw the lines I have to follow
Guide me properly with your arrow
Because sometimes I tend to be irrational
Yet all the while you want me to be rational.
Well I learn that life is like a slope
With its ascends and descends that I must cope
Going through such a wonderful formula
Is just like solving problem in algebra
Life is indeed an infinite equation
Perfected by your eternal computation
And only a minuscule yet projection
Give thanks and praise your Almighty creation
 MATH SONG

DON'T THINK TWICE

WORDS BY ALF ESTBERG AND DANE R. CAMP
TUNE: "DON'T THINK TWICE, IT'S ALRIGHT"
It ain't no use to sit around and cry, guy
You just didn't do your best,
And any fool can tell you 'xactly why - - (sigh)
You shoulda studied for the test!
Now you wish there was something you could do or say
To change that grade but there's just one way.
You'll just have to do your homework everyday!
Don't think twice, it's alright.
Now I think it's time you turned on your light - - bright!
Cuz the light will help you know
What you've done wrong and how to get it right - - (right!)
For your grade is way too low.
So open your mind and go do the work,
For the more that you do, the less you'll shirk,
And no one cares that your teacher's a jerk.
Don't think twice, it's alright.
Now you're walking down the road to success.
The future's in your hands
For you've erased the memory of that mess - - (yes!)
And you're squarely in command.
So spread the word from here to Timbuktu,
There ain't nothing anyone can do for you,
That you can't do yourself....you know it's true.
Don't think twice, it's alright.