Her jasmine perfume
as she whispers, “You had me
at Sohcahtoa.”
Joshua Gage
Ohio Haiku
Category: Middle School
Dragonflies
On the pond surface
Paul Glendinning
reflected dragonflies clash.
Mirror symmetry.
Department of Mathematics, University of Manchester, UK
Correlation
Take correlation
For causation and find out
Ice cream causes crime
Jeremy Redlien
Achilles
Even Achilles
Jeremy Redlien
could not conquer all the points
tortoise merely passed
Loganberry Pie
loganberry pie . . .
every year on March fourteen
she celebrates pi
Valentina Ranaldi-Adams
Oak Tree
Oak tree, solid trunk —
Anna Bardone-Cone
Base times height, the mass stretched out,
Vibrant life inside.
from Math in Seventeen Syllables
Circle
The area of
Any given circle is
Always pi r squared
Lululu, age 12
Outliers
Mean outliers bark
like hound dogs for our notice.
It’s just a squirrel.
David Carroll
Many data sets in the real world such as opinion surveys or rainfall amounts contain outliers — a value well outside the “typical grouping”. When using the average, or “mean”, to describe the data, a single outlier has a large effect on the average. When we provide a median value along with the mean it help people better understand the story being told by the data without being distracted by the barking dogs. –David Carroll
Moon
square the radius
Valentina Ranaldi-Adams
and then multiply by pi—
full moon in autumn
from Math in Seventeen Syllables
Apples
filling one bushel—
Valentina Ranaldi-Adams
forty pounds of ripe apples
for us to carry
from Math in Seventeen Syllables