Learning by Writing

The above statement comes from a blog posting by Denise Gaskins -- in her blog, Let's Play Math, at this link.  Here's more from that post:

Journaling Prompt 20: Math Poetry: The Square

Write a poem in which every line has the same number of words as the entire poem has lines. Try to use sensory details and vivid verbs. Your poem does not have to rhyme, but it can if you wish.  For example, you could write six lines with six words in each line. Like this:

Exponential Adventure

                     Once when famine struck the land —
                     No rain, no hope of harvest —
                     The youngest princess launched her quest.
                     She sought the fabled magic chessboard
                     That double, double, double, doubles rice.
                     Enough for all her starving people.

Extra challenge: Try a longer cubic poem, with the same number of stanzas as it has lines per stanza and words per line. Or a hypercube epic with sections, stanzas per section, lines per stanza, and words per line.

Read more -- visit Denise Gaskins' Let's Play Math blog at this link.

Recently found -- an article entitled "The Geometry of Writing."  Available at this link.