M. W. Penn will be artist in residence at Webster Hill School, West Hartford, Connecticut, during the week beginning October 20, 2008. She will lecture to the assembled students and visit individual classes to read her poetry and explore some of the seminal ideas of mathematics. She will also share her experiences in publishing: writing over 50 magazine articles and, most recently, children's books.
For information about having M. W. Penn visit your classroom please contact Pat Vita at patvita@cox.net.
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2 comments:
"It is not always easy to get children excited about numbers. But the story Sidney the Silly Who Only Eats 6 not only got my children excited about numbers and reading, but it is the most sought after book in the classroom library! Your reading of the text brought it to life for the children and your simple love of the "beauty of numbers" made this fun, silly book have meaning."
Teacher, Sprague School,Waterbury
CUMMUTATIVE PROPERTY
7 + 4 or 4 + 7?
Each will add up to 11.
5 + 4 will equal 9.
So will 4 + 5. That’s fine.
Both 2 + 6 and 6 + 2
Will equal 8. It’s always true.
When adding numbers I have found
They can commute, or move around.
(Shh, here’s a secret. It’s a fact.
This doesn’t work when you subtract.)
Thought for budding poets and mathematicians:
A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician. Karl Wilhem Theodor Weirestrass (1815-1897) ‘The father of modern analysis’.
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