Showing posts with label Mathematics Awareness Month. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mathematics Awareness Month. Show all posts
Thursday, March 31, 2016

The Future of Prediction

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     As well as being National Poetry Month, April is Mathematics Awareness Month and this year's theme is " The Future of Predict...
Monday, March 28, 2016

Contemplating the heavens

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English writer G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was a poet but was better known for his pithy sayings.   For example, we have the following st...
Sunday, April 19, 2015

April celebrates Math and Poetry

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     April is National Poetry Month and Mathematics Awareness Month . Yesterday I was able to attend several of the popular and crowded eve...
Monday, April 7, 2014

April Celebrates Poetry and Mathematics

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On April 1 (the first day of National Poetry Month and Mathematics Awareness Month ) Science writer Stephen Ornes offered a guest post at...
Friday, April 19, 2013

A poem for your pocket

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April is National Poetry Month. April is National Mathematics Awareness Month. Today, April 19, is Poem-in-Your-Pocket Day. Here is a...
Monday, April 8, 2013

"Sustainable" in a poem

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As I have mentioned previously, April is National Poetry Month and also Mathematics Awareness Month -- and the mathematical focus is "...
Friday, April 27, 2012

Poetry with Math -- BRIDGES 2012, Limericks

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During July 25-29, 2012, Towson University will be hosting BRIDGES 2012 , a mathematics-and-the-arts interdisciplinary conference. This yea...
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Macbeth and Probability

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     Kansas City educator Michael Round of the Center for autoSocratic Excellence has developed a host of math teaching tools -- and withi...
Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Following Euler in Koenigsberg

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     The Köenigsberg Bridges have an important link to mathematics -- for mathematician Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) took a legendary Köenigs...
Sunday, April 15, 2012

Statistics -- a lament

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     Helping me to continue to connect National Poetry Month with Mathematics Awareness Month (with its theme of "Mathematics, Statist...
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Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Start with a number . . .

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     April celebrates both poetry and mathematics -- this month that is the gateway to spring is also National Poetry Month and Mathematic...
Saturday, April 23, 2011

Attitudes of Numbers

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     I like Bruce Snider 's "The Certainty of Numbers" (which you may already have found online at The Poetry Foundation web...
Sunday, April 17, 2011

A picture should extend beyond its frame

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Since April is Mathematics Awareness Month -- with theme "Unraveling Complex Systems" -- this blogger has been seeking out poems ...
Thursday, April 14, 2011

Finding poems with "numbers"

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     Here's a quick and enjoyable activity:      Go to the website for The Poetry Foundation.    Browse for a bit and, when you have co...
Sunday, April 3, 2011

April -- month of poetry and mathematics

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April is both National Poetry Month and  Mathematics Awareness Month   (with theme this year being "Unraveling Complex Systems")....