Minnestoa math teacher Ben Orlin's website Math with Bad Drawings is a fun place to visit and Orlin often posts on Twitter -- browsing there recently I found this posting:
Showing posts with label Ben Orlin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ben Orlin. Show all posts
Friday, March 4, 2022
Poetry of ideas -- an anagram, a palindrome
Here are links to previous postings in this blog that cite Ben Orlin and Anthony Etherin.
Monday, November 8, 2021
A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems
Celebrate Raymond Queneau (1903-1976).
In a recent posting, mathy blogger Ben Orlin noted (here in Math with Bad Drawings) that 2021 is the 60th anniversary of an amazing poetry collection, One Hundred Thousand Billion Poems, by Raymond Queneau. The collection consist of 14 sonnets, with each line of each sonnet on a separate strip of paper -- allowing formation of a poem using any of the 14 first lines, any of the 14 second lines, and so on. Here is an link to a earlier blog posting that introduces Queneau's collection and includes and interactive way to create a sonnet from the collection.
Here is a link to other postings from this blog that include Queneau.
Wednesday, July 3, 2019
Fighting the heat -- with limericks!
Brief poems with strict patterns -- like the FIB and the LIMERICK -- are often used to convey mathy messages. Recently this limerick caught my eye (found at madkane.com).
Heated Limerick by Madeleine Begun Kane
One-hundred degrees? I may swoon.
Yes, I’m singing a very hot tune.
And I’m down in the mouth
Cuz this isn’t the south,
But Bayside, New York — early June.
At her long-standing and encyclopedic website, madkane.com, Kane offers lots more limericks -- and instructions for writing a limerick -- and also math-humor.
A wonderful source of math-humor and limericks is Ben Orlin's site, "Math with Bad Drawings." Here is a sample:
To find limericks previously posted in this blog, use the SEARCH box in the right-hand column OR follow this link.
Heated Limerick by Madeleine Begun Kane
One-hundred degrees? I may swoon.
Yes, I’m singing a very hot tune.
And I’m down in the mouth
Cuz this isn’t the south,
But Bayside, New York — early June.
At her long-standing and encyclopedic website, madkane.com, Kane offers lots more limericks -- and instructions for writing a limerick -- and also math-humor.
A wonderful source of math-humor and limericks is Ben Orlin's site, "Math with Bad Drawings." Here is a sample:
A limerick for mathematicians -- by Ben Orlin |
This next clever limerick -- originally first posted in this blog back in March 2010, has been attributed to Leigh Mercer:
A clever computational limerick -- by Leigh Mercer |
To find limericks previously posted in this blog, use the SEARCH box in the right-hand column OR follow this link.
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Ben Orlin,
Leigh Mercer,
Madeleine Begun Kane
Thursday, November 16, 2017
Memorization and formulae
A website I enjoy visiting is Ben Orlin's MathWithBadDrawings.com. At every mathy website I visit, it is my habit to do a search for "poetry" (just as on a poetry site I search for "math"). At MathWithBadDrawings I found this poetry sample concerning whether it is important to memorize particular basics:
Monday we memorize
That way we know
Tuesday through Friday
We think and we Grow
And, accompanied by a drawing, here are the first two of five stanza for a poem about the quadratic formula:
Monday we memorize
That way we know
Tuesday through Friday
We think and we Grow
And, accompanied by a drawing, here are the first two of five stanza for a poem about the quadratic formula:
Sunday, January 19, 2014
Poems and primes
Friday morning, 1-17-2014, looking north from the Baltimore Convention Center |
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Baltimore,
Ben Orlin,
Douglas Norton,
Euclid,
JMM Poetry Reading,
limerick,
math,
mathematics,
poetry,
primes
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