Showing posts with label math. Show all posts
Showing posts with label math. Show all posts
Monday, August 15, 2016

Find math-poetry links in BRIDGES archives

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     As noted in last week's posts, the annual international math-arts festival, BRIDGES, recently was held in Finland.  Now the archive...
Thursday, July 21, 2016

One thing leads to another -- "Do the Math"

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     I offer poetry workshops for Peer Wellness and Recovery Services -- and PWRS coordinator Miriam Yarmolinsky invited me to go with her ...
Tuesday, July 5, 2016

What Math Teachers Do

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     They ignore me.  I      raise my hand -- wave it      to ask questions, to      offer answers -- but      they call on the boys. ...
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...
Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Soon it will be February -- and Valentine's Day

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     Looking back :  on February 12, 2011 I posted math-poetry suggestions for Valentine's Day at this link: Loving a mathematician (Va...
Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Counting those who grieve . . .

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Each day's email brings me a Poem-a-Day from Poets.org and today's selection by Matthew Olzmann considers the tragedies from gun-...
Monday, November 16, 2015

Encouragement from fathers, a second view

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     Despite the importance of fathers' encouragement (as noted in my post on 13 November ), some women oppose their fathers' views....
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...
Sunday, October 4, 2015

A mathematician's favorite poet

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     A summertime gift book that I have much enjoyed reading is Love & Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality by Edward Frenkel (Basic Book...
Thursday, August 27, 2015

Hate Math -- 21 Reasons (NOT) . . .

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Two four-letter words that I want NEVER to be used TOGETHER are hate and math .  A lively contradiction to my wish is provided by the follo...
Tuesday, July 21, 2015

The culture for women in math and the sciences

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Perhaps the phrase "ordinary" women scientists is an oxymoron -- but it should not be.  Women should be free to populate the full...
Friday, May 8, 2015

Include Arts in STEM -- and have STEAM !

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Welcome to this blog where we support STEAM ! Visit YouTube for   math -student, performance- poet Harry Baker's  "A love...
Thursday, March 26, 2015

The problem of time

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Californian Brenda Hillman is a poet whose work I like and admire.  In "Time Problem" she weaves prime numbers into a deft descri...
Friday, March 6, 2015

Celebrate Pi -- write in Pilish

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On 3/14/15 many of us will celebrate  π - day; for those who like to gaze on the digits of  π ,  one hundred thousand of them are available...
Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Women in Maths -- on Facebook

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     Recently I prepared an item for Rachel Levy's Grandma Got STEM blog that told a bit about my granddaughters who like math.  My pre...
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Thursday, January 22, 2015

Girls who like math

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Often I think about the interactions of girls with mathematics and recently I have been feeling delighted that all of my school-age granddau...
Wednesday, January 14, 2015

To add two and two

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     Today I call attention again (as in my post for 6 January, 2015 ) to the extensive  Science-Poetry collection edited by Norman Hugh R...
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Sunday, December 28, 2014

A Fractal Poem

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    A fractal is an object that displays self-similarity -- roughly, this means that the parts have the same shape as the whole -- as in th...
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Sunday, November 9, 2014

Composite or Prime?

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 Her age  is 9.   Is that 9 composite or prime?      I have a wonderful collection of grandchildren and am continually on the l...
Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Mathy poems via e-mail

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Publishing a blog about poetry and mathematics brings me new connections -- it is not unusual for a day to begin with an email from another ...