Mr Honner

Math Haiku

There are many reasons I personally love to write, and as a math teacher, I love getting my students writing about math.

One easy way to do this is to have students write math-themed haiku. It’s a simple exercise, it gets students thinking about math in a different way, and the elegance and efficiency of the style is reminiscent of mathematics itself!

So enjoy some math-themed haiku from my Calculus students.

Solving math problems

Getting lost along the way.

You’re on the right track.

Mathematicians

Must always seek out patterns

To make connections.

Limit of a curve.

Tangent at infinity.

Straight line asymptote.

Triangles are shapes

They have sharp, pointy edges

Don’t let them poke you.

Got a good math haiku? Let’s hear it!

Challenge NYT

Math Quiz: NYT Learning Network

Through Math for America, I am part of an on-going collaboration with the New York Times Learning Network. My latest contribution, a Test Yourself quiz-question, can be found here:

https://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/19/test-yourself-math-oct-19-2011/

This question is about the costs of providing educational technologies, such as the math software Cognitive Tutor, to students in the United States.

By patrick honner, 15 yearsOctober 19, 2011 ago

Application Geometry

Geometry of Pasta

This is a fun slideshow of images from architect George Legendre’s book “Pasta by Design”

http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/using-his-noodle/

The slideshow, from the on-line New York Times Style magazine, shows a few different renderings of pasta shapes. The book, apparently, contains actual cooking directions as well as these technical schematics.

It appears as though Legendre used a graphing utility like Mathematica or Maple to sketch out his pastas. A creative, and fun, application of this technology!

By patrick honner, 15 yearsOctober 18, 2011 ago

Representation Resources