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 ...

In Sunil Mishra’s book titled Return of the Hypotenuse, Einstein, Newton and Archimedes’ principles pass through fun meters and rhymes, finds Phorum Dalal Sunil Mishra, the author of Return of the ...

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” ...

uncommon courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching. I have always enjoyed writing poetry. As a high school mathematics teacher, I ...

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