Students blogging

Last year I asked students to blog - twice a marking period.  And we are at it again this year.  Our blogging is an opportunity to explore math from a perspective apart from what you typically see in a math book.

Today's challenge ... be creative ... let your imagination fly ... 

So, I open up our students blogs tonight and find this poem by Elizabeth ... love it!

People don’t think math has its uses

All they think is that it confuses

Their only quest?

Passing the next text.

But what they don’t see

Is what math can be

The degree you could achieve

If only you can properly perceive

If only you stopped and looked around

You’d be surprised at the things you found

Parabolas in buildings, bridges, sports, and the Saint Louis Arch

The slopes, the lines, the shapes of bands that march

Everything you do has math at its center

If you're a musician, an athlete, an inventor

A musician with math in the chords

An athlete in the jumps and throws to get awards

An inventor the algorithms and functions needed

For the  invention to work unheeded

And that was only a slice of the cake

There are so many more connections to math you could make

And while students continue to hate

They’ll soon find why adults think math is so great 

https://kidblog.org/class/math-matters/posts/eaoy5k1rus4ububm5u0d9tgvi