Showing posts with label Erica Jolly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Erica Jolly. Show all posts
Monday, November 19, 2018

Qualitative thinking in a quantitative era . . .

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Chemistry Nobelist  Roald Hoffman also is a poet,  and an advocate of holistic education. Many thanks to Australian poet and STEAM adv...
Monday, April 9, 2018

March for Our Lives -- Numbers and complexities!

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     One of the very moving recent events in my life was the "March for Our Lives" in Washington a couple of weeks ago.  Passionat...
Monday, November 13, 2017

Logic and Poetry -- from Lewis Carroll

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     Australian poet Erica Jolly  has alerted me to Lapham's Quarterly  -- a magazine, both print and digital, that offers the view that...
Monday, November 6, 2017

Mathematics -- vital imagery in SO MANY poems . . .

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     Mathematics not only governs the structure of many poems -- of sonnets and pantoums and villanelles and more -- but mathematical imager...
Friday, October 27, 2017

Moving from STEM to STEAM in Australia

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     "Poets," said Australian writer and teacher Erica Jolly , "find their themes in what matters to them."  This quote ...
Tuesday, May 9, 2017

Save the Climate, change STEM to STEAM

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     Australian poet Erica Jolly is one of the leaders of the STEM to STEAM movement in Australia -- she has introduced me to The Conversati...
Thursday, February 4, 2016

Visiting the Australian Poetry Library

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     An Australian poet ( Erica Jolly ) whom I have met through this blog has helped me to learn about the great variety of poetry and relat...
Monday, November 30, 2015

Sustainability needs the arts AND mathematics . . .

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The following poem is by Erica Jolly -- an Australian poet and retired teacher who is working hard to have the arts and the sciences integr...
Tuesday, October 27, 2015

The magic of mathematics (in art)

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     Australian teacher and  poet Erica Jolly is convinced that breaking down the barriers that make silos of sciences and humanities subj...