Showing posts with label Michael Round. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Michael Round. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Macbeth and Probability

     Kansas City educator Michael Round of the Center for autoSocratic Excellence has developed a host of math teaching tools -- and within them he often uses rhyming verses amid his diagrams and his prose.  Here are the opening lines of an activity in which he links Macbeth with probabilities:

The Royal Route He Took:  A Shakespeare Poem 
                                                                       by Michael Round

This Shakespeare tragedy,
Macbeth, you know the name.
His eventual downfall thinking
Probability is a game.