High School – Page 6 – The Math Haiku Project

Suppose

Suppose humankind
knew neither of pi’s value
nor of winter’s end.
Kevin Farey
from Math in Seventeen Syllables

Cosecant, you say,
by the dawn’s earliest light,
is one over sine.
Kevin Farey
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

I wrote a poem with
Seventeen syllables
Did I count right?
Dor Abrahamson
from Math in Seventeen Syllables

Natural numbers
No fractions, no decimals
Just count up from 1!
Eric Newman

Isolate x. Poor
lonely variable, in
the end, left alone.
Teena Carroll
Emory and Henry College

There is only one
straight line in the world, we just
move it and tilt it
Teena Carroll
Emory and Henry College

Halfway there each step
You’ll get to the goal someday
But you will die first
Eric Newman
from Math in Seventeen Syllables

A bird cannot dive
Into the sea without first
Touching its surface.
Lora Newman
from Math in Seventeen Syllables