High School: Geometry – The Math Haiku Project

Cartesian Plane

an abstract canvas
where geometry sketches
algebra’s portrait
Ben Orlin
Math with Bad Drawings
The Mathematician’s Haiku Book

square the radius
and then multiply by pi—
full moon in autumn
Valentina Ranaldi-Adams
from Math in Seventeen Syllables

In America,
Pi Day of the Century
was transcendental!
Lawrence M. Lesser
from Math in Seventeen Syllables

Surface seeming flat,
at moon’s eclipse its shadow
argues otherwise.
Kevin Farey
from Math in Seventeen Syllables

translate, rotate, scale;
shapes dance in shifting grids as
axes pirouette
Maggie Weber
from Math in Seventeen Syllables

It is shorter to
Walk straight there—The Triangle
Inequality
Lora Newman
from Math in Seventeen Syllables