Showing posts with label FIB. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FIB. Show all posts
Friday, June 7, 2024

Integrating . . .

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      Integrating our fields of knowledge makes them more useful -- a view that has been correct for me, at least, and I am delighted when I...
Friday, March 15, 2024

Discovery Tool -- Following a Pattern

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     When I pick up a pen to write on a particular subject, often it is useful me to try to follow a pattern for rhymes or syllable-counts -...
Monday, December 4, 2023

Should I take notes?

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One of the things about my learning process that I was not fully aware of during many of my school years was the role that my fingers play...
Friday, May 12, 2023

Exploring the truth with a FIB

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     Recently I have been reconnected with British-Israeli mathematician-educator, Yossi Elran   (whom I met at a conference in Banff severa...
Thursday, December 8, 2022

Writing -- a Path toward Knowing

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     Advice for my grandchildren -- in the form of a Fib.  (Wish I had remembered to give it on November 23 -- which is Fibonacci day. )    ...
Monday, July 11, 2022

CoronaVirus Fibs

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     The threats of the coronavirus seem less now, but are not gone.  And, as I go through files, I have found these Fibs -- expressing conc...
Monday, February 21, 2022

Reduce stress in math class -- write a poem

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        Recently I have come across a website for the New England Literary Resources Center -- and one of the suggestions offered for manag...
Friday, December 31, 2021

Year-end Counting -- with Gratitude

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     Year      ends.      I count --      and count on --      mathy poems shared      here by countless poets. THANK YOU!
Monday, December 27, 2021

Amid uncertainties -- compose a Fib

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How many Corona-virus cases will the new year bring? Stop, Think!        Wonder What to say . . . I gather my thoughts and hope I can make a...
Wednesday, August 18, 2021

Shaping Poems with Numbers

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      Numerical patterns can help guide our minds and fingers to create poems -- and one of the patterns I like is the Fibonacci numbers -- ...
Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Celebrating with a Fib

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This Fib is to celebrate all those people who connect poetry and math -- CHEERS! For more about Fibs, do a SEARCH of this blog -- or...
Tuesday, January 2, 2018

In short words . . . a Fib for the New Year!

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       I        want        to wish        you a fine        New Year:  play with words        and time. Count each short word and lin...
Wednesday, May 20, 2015

In the Tuscan sun

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View the statue in Pisa of Fibonacci, mathematician in the sun.  
Saturday, June 22, 2013

Why is SHE less known? . . .

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Sometimes matching words to a syllable-count helps to bring focus to my musings.  Here are two stanzas for which I used the Fibonacci number...
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Friday, November 2, 2012

Storm Sandy -- and climate change

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     That      storm      Sandy      has caused more      people to believe      climate change is real and awful      than the piles of sta...
Friday, August 31, 2012

Fibs in NZ -- and climate change

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     A few days ago, on August 21, it was Poet's Day in New Zealand and the blog sciencelens.com featured a math-poetry theme ; that po...
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Sunday, October 16, 2011

A small Fib

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My dilemma    I've    lost    the art    of careful    thought, asea in floods    of  trivial   information.               by JoA...
Friday, February 4, 2011

AWP avoids mathematics

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I am currently attending the 2011 AWP* Conference and am disappointed that none of the sessions involves connections of writing with mathem...
Sunday, October 31, 2010

The Fib -- a form that gathers strength

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The "Fib" is a poetry form in which the numbers of syllables per line follow the pattern of the Fibonacci numbers.  (See also Apri...
Monday, April 19, 2010

Poems with Fibonacci number patterns

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In 21st century poetry, there are a variety of non-rhyming forms--and several of them have derived from the Fibonacci numbers. *  The Danis...
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