Showing posts with label Carol Dorf. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Carol Dorf. Show all posts
Monday, April 15, 2024

The Geometry of Distraction

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      California poet Carol Dorf is a retired math teacher and writer of a very varied library of poems, including many with math connectio...
Thursday, November 9, 2023

A Mathy-Poetic Trajectory

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       Carol Dorf is a retired math teacher and poet -- and   at  New Verse News   I have discovered one of her recent mathy poems, "TR...
Wednesday, May 18, 2022

Math-Poetry -- when distinct worlds collide . . .

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     Carol Dorf has been a long-time leader in math poetry projects.  A now-retired secondary school math teacher from California, Carol is...
Thursday, April 14, 2022

Poetry at the Mathematics Conference

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      Last weekend, April 6-9, was a virtual national jmm - Joint Mathematics Meetings -- and I attended a number of sessions that explore...
Monday, October 5, 2020

The Domain of the Function . . .

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     Recently I found, in The Literary Nest , the mathy poem, "Functional" by retired math teacher and active poet Carol Dorf .  D...
Tuesday, September 29, 2020

TalkingWriting with Mathematics

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     TalkingWriting is an online journal that's celebrating its 10th birthday -- TEN YEARS of including mathematics in its mix of poet...
Wednesday, September 23, 2020

If a Garden of Numbers . . .

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      In a summer email from math-poet-editor Carol Dorf ,  I first enjoyed "If a Garden of Numbers" -- a mingling of numbers with...
Wednesday, July 8, 2020

Wonderful math-poetry . . . in lots of online places

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      Carol Dorf , poetry editor of the online journal, TalkingWriting , has been sharing (during the pandemic) daily poems via e-mail -- a...
Wednesday, May 27, 2020

THE STORY OF MATHEMATICS -- in a poem

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     A mathy poem that I have learned about from  Carol Dorf (poet and retired math teacher and  poetry editor at talkingwriting.com ) is &...
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Monday, May 25, 2020

Counting . . . and more counting . . .

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     Poet and retired math teacher and poetry editor ( talkingwriting.com ) Carol Dorf  has been staying connected during the covid-19 pande...
Thursday, December 5, 2019

Reaching for the stars . . . with science and poetry

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     Astronomer Beatrice Muriel Hill Tinsley (1941– 1981) made fundamental contributions to our understanding of the evolution of galaxies ...
Monday, September 17, 2018

Time and Precision . . . .

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   California poet Carol Dorf is a semi-retired secondary school mathematics teacher who is an important force in poetry.  Not only a fine ...
Monday, August 28, 2017

How does the Triangle relate to the Circle?

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     One of the active promoters of poetry with links to mathematics is Californian Carol Dorf -- who teaches math at Berkeley High School A...
Friday, November 18, 2016

A well-constructed language

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     California math teacher, poet and editor, Carol Dorf is a vital force in the production and dissemination of mathy poems.  A blog SEARC...
Tuesday, September 13, 2016

A Fib (a perfect circle) -- and some math-po links

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    1      Not      1      one      2      circle     3      is perfect     5      yet the idea     8      of circle's useful ever...
Thursday, April 28, 2016

Talking-Writing offers Math Poems

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     In recent weeks, the online journal Talking-Writing has been featuring math poems and last Monday they posted my " Skagway Study ...
Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Imagine a Fractal

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California poet Carol Dorf is also a math teacher and is poetry editor of the online journal TalkingWriting .  In the most recent issue of...
Monday, January 13, 2014

Writing mathy poems - a student activity

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On the web-page of mathematician-poet Sarah Glaz I found a link to this file of math-related poems that she prompted students to write whe...
Thursday, September 19, 2013

BRIDGES poems, from 17 poets

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Due to the hard work of mathematician-poet Sarah Glaz , poetry has been an important part of recent BRIDGES-Math-Art Conferences . And, unde...
Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Is your favorite poet a mathematician?

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     The Joint Mathematics Meetings in Boston last week gave a fine opportunity for me to connect with both mathematicians and poets, old fr...
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