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A mathematics teacher is a midwife to ideas.
George Polya
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The first and foremost duty of the high school in teaching mathematics is to emphasize methodical work in problem solving...The teacher who wishes to serve equally all his students, future users and nonusers of mathematics, should teach problem solving so that it is about one-third mathematics and two-thirds common sense.
George Polya
One of the first and foremost duties of the teacher is not to give his students the impression that mathematical problems have little connection with each other, and no connection at all with anything else. We have a natural opportunity to investigate the connections of a problem when looking back at its solution.
George Polya
The principle is so perfectly general that no particular application of it is possible.
George Polya
When introduced at the wrong time or place, good logic may be the worst enemy of good teaching.
George Polya
The best of ideas is hurt by uncritical acceptance and thrives on critical examination.
George Polya
Euclid 's manner of exposition, progressing relentlessly from the data to the unknown and from the hypothesis to the conclusion, is perfect for checking the argument in detail but far from being perfect for making understandable the main line of the argument.
George Polya
My method to overcome a difficulty is to go round it.
George Polya
A great discovery solves a great problem, but there is a grain of discovery in the solution of any problem. Your problem may be modest, but if it challenges your curiosity and brings into play your inventive faculties, and if you solve it by your own means, you may experience the tension and enjoy the triumph of discovery.
George Polya
I am intentionally avoiding the standard term which, by the way, did not exist in Euler's time. One of the ugliest outgrowths of the new math was the premature introduction of technical terms.
George Polya
If you wish to learn swimming you have to go into the water and if you wish to become a problem solver you have to solve problems.
George Polya
Solving problems is a practical art, like swimming, or skiing, or playing the piano: you can learn it only by imitation and practice.
George Polya
Mathematics is being lazy. Mathematics is letting the principles do the work for you so that you do not have to do the work for yourself
George Polya
The open secret of real success is to throw your whole personality into your problem.
George Polya
You should not put too much trust in any unproved conjecture, even if it has been propounded by a great authority, even if it has been propounded by yourself. You should try to prove it or disprove it.
George Polya
Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way.
George Polya
Geometry is the science of correct reasoning on incorrect figures.
George Polya
Mathematics is the cheapest science. Unlike physics or chemistry, it does not require any expensive equipment. All one needs for mathematics is a pencil and paper.
George Polya
Beauty in mathematics is seeing the truth without effort.
George Polya
There exist a lot of questions that the fools can ask, and the intelligent cannot answer.
George Polya
The world is anxious to admire that apex and culmination of modern mathematics: a theorem so perfectly general that no particular application of it is feasible.
George Polya