Showing posts with label counting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label counting. Show all posts
Monday, December 19, 2022

Counting On . . .

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     I was the oldest, the "responsible" one -- when I wanted to sleep in, my mother said, "Your father -- and our farm -- ar...
Tuesday, August 31, 2021

There is more than one way to die . . .

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      In the 1970's I had access to birth control and was fortunate to be able to be involved with adoption of children rather than abo...
Friday, January 19, 2018

Counting syllables and supporting life

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Today, as abortion-protesters march in Washington, I look back to a post from March 25, 2013 and repeat it below.  I, too, cherish life -- ...
Thursday, December 24, 2015

And now welcome Christmas . . .

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Let us sing . . . (a version of)  The Twelve Days of Christmas           The twelfth day of Christmas.           My true love gave to ...
Friday, November 13, 2015

Encouragement from fathers

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     It was my observation as a professor in a mostly-male mathematics department that the men who joined me in supporting opportunities for...
Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Things to Count On

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Tomorrow is my mother's birthday.  Born in 1912, she has been gone for several years now -- and tomorrow my sons and I will travel to In...
Friday, October 10, 2014

Taken out of context . . .

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Sometimes good lines fit so well into their poems that their individual merits go unrecognized.  And then, taken out of context, they can le...
Thursday, February 13, 2014

Mother Courage -- and speaking of opposites

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     Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) was a poet , but I have not found mathematics in his poems.  Still, I want to note here a fantastic perform...
Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Six Million

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       Sometimes numbers become labels for particular events.  When I was growing up, all of us knew 1492 as a label for the discovery of A...
Saturday, December 14, 2013

Amounting to Something

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From the Fall/Winter 2013 issue of Poet Lore , a poem by David Wagoner about the arithmetic of expectations:      Amounting to Something ...
Sunday, November 24, 2013

Algebra cadabra

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It was my good fortune to meet Colette Inez back in the early 1990s when she was poet-in-residence at Bucknell University. Then, as now, I ...
Monday, November 18, 2013

Counting responses

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At the Poetry Foundation website , poet Audre Lorde (1934-1992) is described thus:                A self-styled "black, lesbian, mo...
Sunday, November 3, 2013

Neruda speaks of numeration

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The collection, Late and Posthumous Poems, 1968-1974 (Grove Press, 1988) by Chilean Nobelist Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) offers to readers a ...
Friday, August 2, 2013

Nursery Rhyme Mathematics

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During the last week of July I was in California, vacationing with family (including six of my grandchildren).  Most of these kids have grow...
Friday, July 26, 2013

Another 17-word Haiku

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If a poet uses only one-syllable words, the resulting Haiku is a bit longer than usual -- as in this Haiku in which the word lengths also fo...
Saturday, July 20, 2013

Poets at BRIDGES

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These seven poets will be reading math-related poems at the upcoming (July 27-31) BRIDGES Conference in Enschede, the Netherlands ; biograph...
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Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Haiku to Mars -- select and vote

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     Each of us may now (July 15 - 29) vote for one of the thousands of Haiku submitted to NASA's "Haiku for Mars" contest. T...
Thursday, July 11, 2013

Counting on numbers

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Alan Michael Parker 's anthologized and highly regarded poem "Family Math" begins in the style of a typical word-problem from...
Thursday, June 27, 2013

17-word Haiku

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     On 25 May 2013 this blog contained an announcement of NASA's Haiku-to-Mars contest.  The contest rules are here -- and July 1 is ...
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Thursday, June 13, 2013

Count your things

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     In the development of human culture, mathematics began with counting.  And so it also begins with each child as she/he grows.      Som...