Contest sponsored by the American Mathematical Society
for
junior-high students . . . . senior-high students . . . college students
from Maryland
WRITE A POEM with connections to MATH -- Send it to AMS
Here's a link to contest information: www.ams.org/math-poetry
This blog's posting for October 10 also gives some information about the student contest.
Here's an example of a poem that is not about mathematics BUT mathematical patterns give it structure. Before you read the note at end of the poem, can you discover how math is involved?
Here's an example of a poem that is not about mathematics BUT mathematical patterns give it structure. Before you read the note at end of the poem, can you discover how math is involved?
December and June by JoAnne Growney
cold
winds howl
geese go south
nights long tea steeps
temperatures fall low
ponds freeze snowmen grow
toboggans slide down hillsides
wood-fires flame snowballs fly
winds howl groundhogs hibernate
sun glows raspberries ripen
catbird sings iris blooms
days long streams rush jays scream
holiday picnics catch flies
wheat thrives crickets chirp
tomato plants climb
hay dries tea's iced
catbird sings
sun glows
warm
sun glows raspberries ripen
catbird sings iris blooms
days long streams rush jays scream
holiday picnics catch flies
wheat thrives crickets chirp
tomato plants climb
hay dries tea's iced
catbird sings
sun glows
warm
Author's note: The numbers of syllables in the phrases of "December and June" follow the patterns of factorization of the integers from 1 to 10, then 10 to 1 -- into the prime factors 2, 3 and 5. For example, line six has phrases of two syllables and three syllables, using factorization 6 = 2 * 3. Line eight has three phrases of two syllables, using 8 = 2*2*2.
Lots of my math-related poems are available in here in this blog -- browse or (use the SEARCH box to find poems on a particular topic) -- and here at my website.
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