Math Talk: Mathematical Ideas in Poems for Two Voices

✍ Scribed by Theoni Pappas

• Book ID: 110684054
• Publisher: Wide World Publishing
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 2 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781884550478
• ASIN: B003VYBP3I

✦ Synopsis

Who would have ever thought there was a direct way to connect mathematical concepts to poetry?
Creative juices were certainly at work when this book of mathematical dialogues was created by Theoni Pappas. It presents a
new way to enjoy and learn mathematical ideas via poetic dialogues read by two people. A new twist to mathematical themes.

—24 delightful and informative poetic dialogues for exploring math ideas.—

• TOPIC POEMS INCLUDE-
• Mathematics- Circles- Proper fractions- Fractals
  - Fibonacci numbers- One- Operations- Imaginary numbers
  - Möbius strip- Zero- Squares- Operations
  - Variables- Radicals- Triangles- - Primes- Dimensions
  - Golden Mean- e, & i (for three voices)
  - Integers- Tessellations- Even numbers
  - Googols- We are numbers.