Showing posts with label rhyme. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rhyme. Show all posts
Saturday, January 2, 2016

Math is Brewing . . .

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For one of my granddaughters who likes poems, I recently purchased If You're Not Here, Please Raise Your Hand:  Poems about School by Ka...
Tuesday, March 31, 2015

April is . . . a time for math and poetry . . .

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     Once upon a time      I counted to the tenth prime      and found a word to rhyme. Tomorrow is not only April Fool's Day -- it...
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Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Martin Gardner, again

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     This past weekend a review by Teller (magician of the Penn & Teller team) of an autobiography of Martin Gardner appeared in the ...
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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...
Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Rhyme, beauty, and usefulness

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     For many years poetry was transmitted orally and rhymes were vital because they are easily remembered.  In recent years, however, free ...
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Saturday, November 10, 2012

Symmetry in poetry

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In Euclidean Geometry, objects retain their size and shape during rigid motions (also called symmetries ); one of these is translation -- ...
Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Echoes of childhood rhymes

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For those of us who live and breathe mathematics, there is much of it that affects us deeply.  Even those of us whose mathematics is mostly ...
Monday, August 15, 2011

Some cat!

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My title is a borrowing from E. B. White's Charlotte's Web -- which I saw recently with grandchildren at Glen Echo Park's Adven...
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Monday, July 18, 2011

Finding a square root

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Here is an old poem (1849) by George Van Waters that offers instruction on finding a square root . This process was part of my junior high l...
Thursday, September 2, 2010

Rhymes help to remember the digits of Pi

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Calculated at the website,  WolframAlpha , here are the first fifty-nine digits of the irrational number π (ratio of a circle's circumfe...
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