California poet Carol Dorf is a high school math teacher (and has taught in a science museum) -- and images from math and science permeate her work. An article on math anxiety (and its connections to the brain) in today's Washington Post brought to my mind this poem of hers:
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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Poems starring mathematicians - 4
Each of today's poems is in the voice of a student who looks back. First, from Carol Dorf, a poem to the author of a book--written as a fan-letter, "Dear Ivar." And then, for his hero (a special Grammar School teacher) by Czech poet and scientist Miroslav Holub (1923-98), "The Fraction Line."
Dear Ivar,
I read your book on the unexpected.
Like most poets, I opposed mathematics
when I was young, seeing it as the converse
to feeling. The previous statement is false.
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