What prompted the idea for the course? I have always enjoyed writing poetry. As a high school mathematics teacher, I recall telling my students that everything is and can be connected to math, even ...

This post originally appeared on Last Word on Nothing. April is Mathematics Awareness Month. April is also National Poetry Month. Coincidence? Yep, almost definitely. But it’s also an opportunity: I’d ...

Cohen, who has taught mathematics at the City College of New York, Drexel University, Widener University and Philadelphia University, says that as a child, “I never thought that I would be a writer,” ...

Reading poetry to learn math? On a recent afternoon, students at Darlington Elementary School did just that as children’s author Greg Tang used rhymes, puzzles and games aimed at making it easier to ...

Franco explores the joy of everyday mathematics in 20 rhyming poems sorted into four sections, and including topics such as a “Stinky Scale” rating malodorous scents, the “geometric math-terpiece” ...

Children’s poet laureate Lewis turns poems from Whitman, Frost, Lear, and more into story problems (poetry problems?) to comically absurd effect. Inspired by Dickinson, Lewis writes, “My book closed ...

The journal aims to stimulate reflection on mathematics education at all levels, and promote study of its practices and its theories: to generate productive discussion; to encourage enquiry and ...

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