I neglected to share this, but on the first day of school this year my 5th grader’s first homework assignment in math was a math poem. Using numbers in a poem. That was the Math homework that day. Use numbers….to make a poem.
I think That I shall Never see,
A thing as lovely as a Three.
Why not Shakespeare?
2B or not 2B, that is the question…
How about civics?
4 score and 7 years ago our 4 fathers…
What’s next? "How does that equation make you feel as a person?"
That’s everyday Math. And while I can concede that math is all around us, it hardly seems useful to waste a day of instruction on something that will not improve the ability to use math.
So this just sounds a bit like English to me…I’m sorry, Language Arts.
What the….