<p>I’ve heard Juan interviewed twice on the book - once on Air America and once on NPR. Guess that’s not mainstream enough!</p>
<p>“Alcohol and Calculus don’t mix. Never Drink and Derive.”</p>
<p>636</p>
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The best, best, best math textbook for this environment ever written: Mathematics: A Human Endeavor, by Harold Jacobs. Even though it was not the text for the courses I taught, it gave me so many great ideas for lessons. See if you can get a copy of this. It’s in it’s 3rd revision and is used in many places.</p>
<p>Triumph is just the “umph” added to Try.</p>
<p>and one of my favorites not necessarily for a math room:
“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible”</p>
<p>Sorry…I don’t know the source of either of the above.</p>
<p>On the right hand side of the classroom, post the Ten Commandments on a bulletin board. To the left, post an American flag with a cross saying as such,“Righteousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to all people.”</p>
<p>Or, if you prefer political correctness, do as such. To the right of the room, post a big portrait of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr with the “I have a dream.” quote. To the left, have a globe posted with children standing around it of different nationalities. Of course, the classroom would not be complete without a poster of the history of Hanakah and Kwanzaa and the customs. These poster boards would add great value to your classroom. Personally, I would choose the latter.</p>
<p>It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.</p>
<p>“Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.” Albert Einstein</p>
<p>My d has an Albert Einstein poster with this quote in her dorm room…she finds it reassuring…lol!</p>
<p>I love Mathematics a Human Endeavor too. It provided a lot of enrichment for my math whiz back in elementary school.</p>
<p>“Lack of preparation on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part”</p>
<p>XI. Thou shalt not whine.</p>
<p>Of all the things I’ve lost, I miss my mind the most.</p>
<p>Naps are good.</p>
<p>I do not see failure as failure, but as a chance to improve my presentation.</p>
<p>tryinhard: 
Nice timing.</p>
<p>Andrew: I personally wouldn’t post the naps one in a math class. But maybe that’s just me…</p>
<p>Funny- there are many overlapping quotes in this thread and in those on bumper stickers that we are discussing in the Sinners Alley (SA) thread. I didn’t think that bumper stickers for college kids and parents of college kids had a lot in common with quotes for middle schoolers classroom walls, but I was wrong (though to be fair, the math theme in many pull the two together). Take a look at the posts on Aug 23-26 or so in SA!</p>
<p>A second-year teacher at my school has this up in his room.</p>
<p>“Time will pass, will you?”</p>
<p>My s. gave our neighbor (teacher) a plaque that read “As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in the classroom”.</p>
<p>Don’t know if the kids would appreciate this one, but I love it for its appreciation of you teachers:</p>
<p>“I believe the children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way.” From Greatest Love of All, Words and Music by Michael Masser and Linda Creed.</p>
<p>Although I do think the kids would appreciate this one:</p>
<p>“Life is too short for long division.” Unknown.</p>
<p>Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we respond to it."
– Charles Swindoll</p>
<p>“The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.”
-Bertrand Russell</p>
<p>“Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.”</p>
<p>“There’s no word in the language I revere more than ‘teacher.’ My heart sings when a kid refers to me as his teacher, and it always has. I’ve honored myself and the entire family of man by becoming a teacher.”
–Pat Conroy, Prince of Tides</p>
<p>Since I am new to the CC web page and the forums, I thought I’d take a “lurk” around some of the older posts. This is are really great thread. I enjoyed reading all of the quotes. </p>
<p>Although the originator of the thread wanted the quotes for his math room, many of them are applicable to life in general. This is an oft quoted one by Winston Churchill, but I absolutely love it:</p>
<p>Never, never, never give up.</p>
<p>“The ultimate purpose of education is to learn to treat each other better.”</p>
<p>(I said that.)</p>
<p>"The basic problem in education “is to understand how something that began so well can often end so badly.” Margaret Donaldson (“Children’s Minds:, London: Fontana, 1978)</p>
<p>Since it is a math classroom, how bout a quote from a famous mathematician? </p>
<p>Irving Kaplansky (1917 - 2006) received the Leroy P. Steele Prize Career Award (now called Lifetime Achievement) in 1989 for “his lasting impact on mathematics, particularly mathematics in America.” In his response to the award, he gave this advice:
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