School Math Poems

Existential Exams

By Mark D. Stucky
Math problems, essay questions,
multiple choice, fill in the blanks…
Many are the tests we take
from grade school through grad school.

We also encounter...

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  Mathematics is sure not my forte
  Nor are chemistry or physics ok
    I'd really like to roam free
 ...

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This is really bad.
“Algebra Two” doesn’t 
Compare to last year....

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Binary Math Rules.

Let me tell you a tale, my friend,
Of ones and zeros that never end.
A world of binary, simple and true,
With rules to help...

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Once,
or twice, 
maybe thrice,
surely not
not fractal

A clan of crazy ecofeminists
conspired within an 88 unit residential castle
in their historically converted 
sometimes hysterically clueless condo
colonial-red predative brick...

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“I walked towards the
 room, thinking that
my grades will bloom.”

“But when I grabbed the 
question paper, 
suddenly my hands 
weren’t stable. ”

“Then I walked toward...

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I was an adequate student in elementary school…I learned my basic math…
never realizing how addition, subtraction, multiplication and division would help me on life’s path.

I...

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This is another parody of a hymn!  This time the hymn is "When the Roll is Called Up Yonder".  No, I am not...

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Should I become a middle school math or English teacher?
Leave my bed early in the morning and return with test papers to grade.
With what authority...

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If seven times five is thirty-five Aunty C,
Can forty minus five also thirty-five be?
And what about five times seven and fifty minus fifteen?
How can they...

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“After one-hundred, which number comes next?”
inquired Ms. Colvin as she studied her text.

All of us kids raised our hands high,
then Ms. Colvin picked Brett, this...

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FUN WITH 3-6-9

Three, six, nine
What comes next
In this line?
At school I was able
With some help from teacher
To learn three times table.
Started parrot fashion
Chanting with the...

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Sliding down the curves of a hypersurface,

Jumping from side to side of a polytope.

Slacklining between the points of a hexacosichoron, 

Spinning through the quadrants of...

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Twenty-seven is eighteen plus nine.
The difference of thirty less three is fine.
If you're not a fool,
and you stay in school,
it's the square root of seven...

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*(a poem in Senryus)*

You don’t have to count,
when you lose a boyfriend, you
know. There was just one.

He was gone before
I knew it - he wasn’t,...

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