Showing posts with label syllable-square. Show all posts
Showing posts with label syllable-square. Show all posts
Monday, June 12, 2023

Syllable Squares

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         Poetry and        Mathematics        are languages        that can aid us                   to think                   new thoughts.
Friday, May 27, 2022

Mathematics might be dangerous!

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       Censorship of Math Texts : A Syllable-Square with Questions             Florida educators have banned        Lots of mathematics text...
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Monday, February 21, 2022

Reduce stress in math class -- write a poem

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        Recently I have come across a website for the New England Literary Resources Center -- and one of the suggestions offered for manag...
Wednesday, December 2, 2020

Celebrate Math Women . . . Write about them!!

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     This message is a follow-up to a posting made on October 12 -- an announcement of the Student Essay Contest sponsored by the Associat...
Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Shaping POETRY with GEOMETRY

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Syllable-count constraints help me to think carefully about word choices as I construct a poem.  Here are square and triangular stanzas that...
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. ...
Sunday, June 21, 2015

Seeing the NEWS in square stanzas

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Reading today's Washington Post, a surprising statistic:                Sharks don't kill                as   many               ...
Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Tragedy of the Commons

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Thinking in syllable-squares, recalling ecologist Garrett Hardin (1915-2003) and his 1968 wisdom, " Tragedy of the Commons ." ...
Monday, March 25, 2013

Counting syllables -- and allowing abortions

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In a perfect world in which every pregnancy is wanted and every life supported with love, there would be no need for abortion.  As I work to...