I have been running maths clubs for children completely free. In my building in Bangalore, I conduct maths clubs for several months, and every child who attended the club was poor in mathematics and is now showing brilliant results.
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Related I was fine with everything except Maths. I was terrible at Maths. CHARLIE SIMPSON I always knew that I was tremendously creative. I recited love poems, I wrote stories and I got exce... SHAKIRA I was very slow in maths, geometry I actually enjoyed. LIAM NEESON They say that maths is a language. So how do I order a pizza with extra cheese in maths? GREG CURTIS I'm not a joiner of clubs... But this is a pretty cool club to be in. The past inductees are brillia... GRAHAM NASH Students shy away from Maths, but in reality Maths is the best friend of man. SHAKUNTALA DEVI All my family has very good mathematical abilities - like, so dorky. I was the dork then in school -... REBEL WILSON There's been several horse clubs that have come and gone. JULIA HINZ My background is economics and maths. I think one of the reasons I studied humanities at all, or eve... NICK DENTON I think maths is the root of everything. If we understood every area of math, it would lead to impro... MATT HAIG We've been coaching course management, and he really took it to heart on this course. When I was wat... GLEN EWING Newcastle is one of the best clubs in England. They are a good, ambitious team and that is very impo... CLAUDIO RANIERI Man had been given a brain that could think in numbers, and it could not be coincidence that the wor... KATE GRENVILLE People who don't like math always accuse mathematicians of trying to make math complicated. (...) Bu... HANYA YANAGIHARA You can only be twice someone’s age once. MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA The reason why we do maths is because it's like poetry. It's about patterns, and that really... MARCUS DU SAUTOY I want this club to be a place that will be comfortable for women in particular. So many clubs have ... SHERYL SWOOPES Now I get exposure first with people directly in the clubs. This is a unique situation for me. ROY AYERS I was really, really happy that the high school kids got back their stuff. We started later in the y... MAGGIE BOBA We now have the ability for our clubs to be stable. Across our market, fans need to have hope in the... ED HORNE Clubs can do a lot to improve the situation. They should, in all circumstances, loyally follow and s... GIORGIO MARCHETTI Boys & Girls Clubs across the nation have had a positive impact on the lives of children for the las... JAMES WATSON I played a lot of tough clubs in my time. Once a guy in one of those clubs wanted to bet me $10 that... HENNY YOUNGMAN My undergraduate degree was in history, and I wish I had been smart enough to really excel at maths,... MICHAEL MORITZ Working is bad enough in the winter, but in the summer it can become completely intolerable. Stuck i... TOM HODGKINSON Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China." "That expression has never made sense to m... LISA KLEYPAS I never had the opportunity to pick up a golf club in school, and I think it is a cool thing for kid... GRAHAM DELAET He taught only one class: 'Unlikely Maths'. But since the time was listed as "now" and the place, "e... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Another club can be beating you for six innings but for some reason the good ball clubs get tough an... BILLY MARTIN I was performing at a New Jersey high school, and I asked a class of 2,000 students, 'How many o... SHAKUNTALA DEVI One minute I was playing chess and doing maths all the time, the next I had been rerouted into more ... SCARLETT THOMAS My kids are in school and in all these clubs - chess club, fashion club, you name it. When my dad ca... OMAR DORSEY Mathematics is one of the major modern mysteries. Perhaps it is the leading one, occupying a place i... MORTIMER J. ADLER There was interest from clubs in Italy and England, I believe. But I've never been attracted by the ... LUIS FIGO The Surf Industry has become a private club, and I’ve never been one to join clubs. I just like to... DREW BROPHY Many of the players have been playing for their premier league clubs and have been in camp almost on... CRENSTON BOXHILL Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON ... where there's one there's ten.' That's crazy math. EMMA DONOGHUE In my teenage years I was put off the idea of a career in flying, because I'd convinced myself t... BRUCE DICKINSON In the three years we have been here, I would say it's growing. We're in a community with a lot of t... BEN ROGERS All clubs are after quality players and guys who are goal kickers. I am very confident in the qualit... GREG MILLER I am utterly in love with my son and my boyfriend and live in the most magical place on Earth. I'... REBECCA LOOS It is very nice that every so often my name is being linked with different clubs in Spain. But I can... RAFAEL BENITEZ Engineering is maths & management BHUPESH B. PATIL I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES They've already been in the process of doing that for several months now. JACOB DIPIETRE Every good club is very aware of it, and we've certainly encouraged club consumers to be aware of it... BROOKE CORREIA I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obe... IGGY POP I was completely unhealthy, obese, so I committed to running three miles every morning for six month... JOSH YOUNG I was in three academic clubs, a huge book worm and the teacher's pet. I was kind of an easy tar... NICOLE ANDERSON [Technology is now an obsession, madly pursued. Quigley believes golf clubs aren't improving yearly,... DANA QUIGLEY I was in 30-plus clubs when I was 14 years old. T-PAIN For the last several years and culminating in six months in orbit next year, I've been training ... CHRIS HADFIELD I was never strong at maths, but I eventually got onto a university physics/astronomy course, and th... ALASTAIR REYNOLDS I run an academy in Spain for young footballers who are released by their clubs and who, in my opini... GLENN HODDLE Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON I worked at comedy clubs - if I can use the term 'work' - for several years. I middled at on... BILL NYE When I was growing up in comedy, there were maybe 10 comics in the whole country. Everyone had a day... ELAYNE BOOSLER We investigated this one in Oregon for several months. We have investigated several others, and have... HERB KUHN I have been DJing in clubs for years. I always dreamed to be a famous DJ in Holland. And now it'... TIESTO My shadow in my art is one way I trace who I was and where I have been. My shadow and I have been on... ANGELA CARTWRIGHT The point is with good maths skills you have just wonderful opportunities and if you don't have ... MARCUS DU SAUTOY I had not been in the jazz environment, having been brought up in the church. But once I got to New ... ARETHA FRANKLIN No, I did night clubs right here in Los Angeles. My partner, Phil Erickson, put me in the business, ... DICK VAN DYKE We have one or two niggles and I want to see how things are tomorrow. This is a big game between two... IAIN STEWART I had a temper when I played junior golf and had my clubs taken away for slamming them on the ground... MATT KUCHAR I caddied for a guy who was a very good player, and he gave me a set of clubs, just a starter set: 5... FRED COUPLES Maths is fundamentally a different process in education than it is in the real world. There is an in... CONRAD WOLFRAM We are definitely in the market for interesting opportunities and, while David Lloyd is not a club w... RICHARD BRANSON I've told you I don't live and die by the polls. Thus, I will refrain from pointing out that we're n... , IN THE NEW REPUBLIC One of the main rules with my mom was if I broke a club, she was going to take it and I wouldn't... RICKIE FOWLER The Old Firm clubs are not easy clubs to manage and sometimes I think frustration comes in that, in ... WALTER SMITH I like fun Beer Markets and the markets we are in now are fun to be in. We're having a blast promoti... CRAIG KAUFMAN I like fun Beer Markets and the markets we are in now are fun to be in. We're having a blast promoti... CRAIG KAUFMAN It is the best showing at state for La Crosse area schools in several years. It was Onalaska's best ... KRISTEN ODEGAARD When the club in Hudson closed, we decided it was time to move on to other clubs. We live in Red Hoo... GARY FINKLE I sat in at every club in New York City, jamming with musicians, because it felt right - and because... RAY CONNIFF The entry of Lifetime Fitness has been good for Columbia in that it was the incentive for CA to make... ROB GOLDMAN The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the avera... GEORGE ORWELL I think it would be a tremendous career move for me. It's always been my ambition to try and play fo... ARCHIE THOMPSON Changing from biochemistry to law was easy because I was rubbish in the laboratory. I could never de... MICHELLE PAVER Today A woman is one who tries to bring a man down. A man is one who has to keep that woman in check... APURVA GAGLANI Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ... E.J. PATTEN I grew up playing in clubs - that's my spiritual stomping ground. ERIC CLAPTON There are more opportunities for smaller groups in the local clubs. GREG FREDERICK Life is Maths, lots of correct methods, same outcome GEORGE MIKHAIL What they call 'alt-comedy' now is basically what comedy was like in the '80s. People tr... JEN KIRKMAN I was home schooled in high school but was definitely the nerd in middle school. I was in three acad... NICOLE ANDERSON Both clubs have been very good about working around my schedule, which allows me to play for both te... JULIO ARELLANO I am not saying the clubs are completely at fault but the players and the others most definitely yes... LEO THEYSKENS History teachers help children climb mountains. JUST IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS Not all the details have been worked out but there is an agreement in principle between the clubs, JOSE MARIA I think the competition is a level playing field for the most part in private clubs. But in order to... JOE DIKDAN The managers are getting paid very well by their respective clubs to do a job for their clubs not th... ALAN SHEARER I think there is a real need in the state of Colorado for a ski club that, actually, everybody invol... JOE FALCONER What work's, my countrymen, in hand? Where go you
With bats and clubs? The matter? Speak, I pra... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE La realtà è maledettamente restìa a farsi imprigionare nelle formule della matematica. GIORGIO ISRAEL The poor fatherless baby of eight months is now the utterly broken-hearted and crushed widow of fort... QUEEN VICTORIA Torture by maths should be a felony. BETHANY FRENETTE I hit some bad shots but didn't let it get to me. The course is there for the taking, you can make s... ARJUN ATWAL
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