Learning math through poetry

Since mathematics as a whole is a difficult subject to learn, perhaps, different approaches are needed to improve the teaching of this discipline. Surely it is the hands-on approach gives students a tactile point of view, the inner life of the subject, while the real-world applications approach allows students to see and understand how mathematics is actually used the settings for the life and various secular . The poem could be a different approach to teach and learn from themfascinating subject?

There is an interesting story behind the creation of my poems of work for the mathematically uncertain. While I was tutoring one of my learning disabled students, he asked me to do something for him to Pi Day For those of you who do not know , Pi Day on March 14 of each year (March 14, 14.03) and the nearest decimal place to the famous mathematical constant Pi is known as 3.14. Every year in schools across the country, teachers and students of mathematicsto do some special project that the number pi.

During the meeting, tutoring him, I asked if I would like to build more of a poem. He of course said yes, and while he was on some practical examples I gave, I sat and the lines of a poem that would be called Wonderful Pi hammered. I decided to make a copy for my use in my classroom to take the next day, read the assignment, a volunteer in each class poetry. For the poem was accepted, Idecided to write a little '.

Learning math through poetry

What was that experience came the idea of writing a poetry collection of math - some funny, some funny, some educational - to teach what is entertaining the reader. In summer 2003 I worked on the collection of poems called Poems for the novel mathematical uncertain. In this collection the reader will find humorous Help, please help me, Master! and instructive SOHCAHTOA Chief, the last of which teaches theFundamentals of trigonometry in a barrage of rhyming verse. There is also a classic, how can it be? "The evidence of verse so that everybody can understand, put the well-known fact that the real numbers between 0 and 1, all natural numbers together. Well, how is that for teachers of mathematics in a new way!

The textbook approach to learning mathematics is certainly his place in the class. In fact, there are limits and restrictions on howThe mathematics can be learned from poetry, but these limits are usually imposed by the limits of our mind. As educators we need to constantly gather new and exciting opportunities to affect our students' and see in what ways to break through learning. Mathematics learning through poetry only his educational goal of being a way to achieve this goal. And who knows? You could churn out some good writers and good mathematician. What a interesting idea.

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