Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Math problems take on new meaning in this class that combines rhymes and verse with math instruction. ra2studio via Getty Images I ...

Cohen, who has taught mathematics at the City College of New York, Drexel University, Widener University and Philadelphia University, says that as a child, “I never thought that I would be a writer,” ...

Children’s poet laureate Lewis turns poems from Whitman, Frost, Lear, and more into story problems (poetry problems?) to comically absurd effect. Inspired by Dickinson, Lewis writes, “My book closed ...

Sunil Mishra, the author of Return of the Hypotenuse, a book of 23 poems and 29 essays on math and science, wrote his first poem on Newton’s law around two years ago for his 12-year-old daughter to ...

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uncommon courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching. I have always enjoyed writing poetry. As a high school mathematics teacher, I ...