Number Poems

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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….

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  • Steve MacDonald
    Steve MacDonald

    Steve is a long-time New Hampshire resident, an award-winning blogger, and a member of the Board of Directors of The 603 Alliance and the National Heritage Center for Constitutional Studies. He is the owner of Grok Media LLC and the Managing Editor, Executive Editor, assistant editor, Editor, content curator, and more (yes, there's more) at GraniteGrok.com. Steve is also a former board member of the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire, the Republican Volunteer Coalition, and has worked for or with many state and local campaigns and grassroots groups, and is a past contributor to the Franklin Center for Public Policy.

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