The May 23 article, “Three Ways to Build Student Confidence in Math,” resonated deeply with my research on psychological safety and feedback in math classrooms. The article highlights formative ...

Gallileo was a poet…Lewis Carroll was a mathematician…Emily Dickinson wrote poetry about mathematics. What do math and poetry have in common? A lot, according to RIT’s Marcia Birken, professor of ...

Daniel May, assistant professor of mathematics at Black Hills State University, converged the left and right brain when he recently presented a public lecture on math and poetry as part of the Geek ...

Reading poetry to learn math? On a recent afternoon, students at Darlington Elementary School did just that as children’s author Greg Tang used rhymes, puzzles and games aimed at making it easier to ...

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This post originally appeared on Last Word on Nothing. April is Mathematics Awareness Month. April is also National Poetry Month. Coincidence? Yep, almost definitely. But it’s also an opportunity: I’d ...

Michelle Whitehurst Goosby was always good at math growing up in Enterprise, but she still preferred the poetry of English classes. “Math just made sense to me,” said Goosby, a 1977 graduate of ...

What do Fibonacci Numbers, the Golden Ratio and poetry have in common? Their patterns and the analogies they inspire help us to express fundamental concepts, make new discoveries and comprehend the ...