A Poet Explores the Quadratic Formula

        On the website of math teacher-blogger Denise Gaskins I find a fascinating posting entitled "A Poet Completes the Square"  -- and the posting contains a poem entitled "QUADRATIC FORMULA."  I offer the opening stanzas of this poem below and a link to the complete poem.

Let's Play Math -- and double Pi!

     A website that I enjoy visiting and one that many current math teachers could enjoy visiting often is 

Denise Gaskins' Let's Play Math – Helping families to learn and enjoy math together.

Learn more about Gaskins here in this biographical sketch -- and enjoy her Let's Play Math blog. Here is a link to a posting with several mathy poems:   Math Makers: Write a Poem – Denise Gaskins' Let's Play Math.  Here is one of my favorite examples of her postings:

Learning by Writing

The above statement comes from a blog posting by Denise Gaskins -- in her blog, Let's Play Math, at this link.  Here's more from that post:

Journaling Prompt 20: Math Poetry: The Square

Opening the Mind . . .

Recently I found   (on X  @letsplaymath)   this thoughtful and poetic musing by Denise Gaskins :

         Mathematical beauty 
              is when our mind's eye is opened
                   to see  something new -- or
                        to see something old in a new light.