Plus, minus, tot up,
add on, multiply, subtract,
division signs. equations,
in depth teachers show,
simpler routes to struggling class,
sweet words of praise raise levels
Tact is vital when,
one imparts rules and standards,
foster childhood thirst for sums,
and older students,
in their quest on advanced course,
maths is tricky? go figure!
The war to end all wars; has been fought'
Yet the world sum, of peace total
It remains at naught.'
Has anyone met Cyril Redhead?
He once was a Teacher of mine; On Paper he was ment to teach Maths... But in reality, this man just Preached Christ!
Has anyone met Cyril Redhead?
We only met a few times; Around 28 years ago... I hope he's doing all right!
Has anyone met Cyril Redhead?
he wouldn't remember my name - or recognise my picture, or my face, in any frame.
Has anyone met Cyril Redhead?
I was struggling at the time, Sent to adult college young - I couldn't cope with School life..
Has anyone Met Cyril Redhead?
I only showed up a few times,,
A Truant dealing with bereavement, and Drugs - my Father had died...
Has anyone met Cyril Redhead?
He taught me at Granville Road... I remember none of his Maths! But remember the Truth - Cyril spoke.
Has anyone Met Cyril Redhead?
This servant of God I once met! His message was just to treat Others - How YOU would like to be treat!
Has anyone met Cyril Redhead?
Does anyone hold this man dear? He showed up and taught me a lesson - then Poof! He just disappeared!
Population patterns in history line
A fold
That general Assembly
Has no peaceful minds hiding
Just as just a study
A must I interfere?
That's a head count happened.
Poor man's oath to wait it out and relay.
A 2 nd parallel beneath the 1st?
Since February of 2025 after the delay
for stated move in dates prior to Jan thru August 2024
Obstructing legislations passage in
California homekey qualifies a minimum
6 months of evidence in the willful
collection of bribes by employed Californians.
Rules as laws in reading legal headlines
defined by regulation of Republican policy shift
This shift in labor policy counters
Trial and error of time under Democratic policy
Zero Budget exists for grants of yesterday or salary
Suggested
No department transfers prepared
Then bribery is accounted for as precaution
To statement
Fact in science of math and letters from history
Let it be noted in speculation laws preventing
speculation that following private citizens
rights and manners is evidence against
When your wrong
You may not correct the truth
My maths teacher said I'll be nothing,
Algebra and calculus caught me dozing.
My Chem teacher condemned me too,
For chemicals sent me straight to the loo.
In physics I was called dumb,
For machines made my mind numb.
Nothing but words excites my passion.
Lyrics and sonnets the real temptation.
Dickens and Ng?gi I read overnight,
Shakespeare I pick at the morning light
Devour volumes with a curious mind
Swallow what my intellect can grind.
Oh! Deliver me from the power of words!
I'm bound in unbreakable cords.
Words call, mesmerize then seize,
And enslave before I realize!
I am like a prime number,
peculiar one,
If you want to be with me,
be unique.
Minus wealth
Adding health
Not doing
This maths teacher
To bed just after one
Awake by half-past three
The words in my head
Swirl around and torture me
All I did was have an idea
A simple story in my head
Now condemned to hard labour
Chiselling pictures, I cannot shed
The characters stare while I slumber
Like a child’s scary dream
They poke and they prod me
Sit in my mind, an endless scream
I wish I loved simple maths
The equations make me sleep
But my mind’s a jumble of words
Lying tangled in a heap
As knotted as my wife’s ear phones
As frustrating as laces in a shoe
I wish that I loved maths
Then I could sleep, just like you.
David Cox 27/10/20
Mathematics is tough
Multiplication hard
Mental sums mind boggling
Maths theorems are worse
Mind confused in exam
Maths should be optional
Majority agree
Welcome to Home School today,
A typical mum might say,
We'll start with Maths, okay?
First, I have an empty glass,
There is 0 wine here for a blast,
Then I'll pour in half,
Before I top it up,
Now I have 1 whole wine to sup,
Home School does need wine o'clock,
For Mums, not kids, quite a shock,
Stop laughing at Mum, okay,
She flunked Maths too, along the way,
Some Mums are not teachers, okay,
Now who farted? She'll say,
End of Home School for the day!
I wonder how I’d feel from day to day
If I knew not prime numbers and their play
If I’d never heard of “e” and “pi”
And still believed that God lived in the sky
Even though I’ve not done maths for years
I fall into brown studies next to squares
Ellipses please me with their enclosed space
Sequential numbers tilt my mind to grace.
Calculus is nonsense in its way
Where nothing re-appears to our dismay
It comes and goes like waves do on the beach
Where men would stand up on a box to preach.
Ah,shall I never know my other life
Where to the grace of words I would be wife?
on calculator
three plus two might equal one
the downfall of haste
If you insist on one fast fix
Three plus two could become six!
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For contest by Charles Messina
Placed 3rd
© 27th February 2019
I was suffering from extreme cold,
And my Maths teacher told,
You’ll be giving a test,
And you’ll have to be your best.
The cold is to be blamed,
As the barrier of my life,
Of course, it is to be blamed,
And I’ll have to strife.
Will this headache stop?
Will it stop affecting my body’s top?
Oh, I’ll have to surmount,
And clean the cough which is in large amount.
And exams are near,
Oh, they’re bugbears,
They’ve increased my fears,
This thing, again an’ again, I won’t hear.
And especially of Maths which is menacing,
When will I be joyously dancing?
Maths, I fold my hands in front of you,
Why, in you, my marks are very few?
Though, I love you too.
I love to solve sums so new.
And I’m telling in this rhyme,
I need time,
The cold and silly mistakes are responsible,
Good marks, in Maths, eh feasible?
I'm fed up from this cold,
See my problem in this poem of mine,
Cold, cold go away,
I want to be fit and fine.
"How easy this maths exam will be,
How simple the maths to be done?"
You understood exactly what the teacher had taught,
Had taught before the test had begun.
On the board it was: ten plus two is…
And then, what’s ten minus four.
On the board it was easy to see how it was solved,
But that was prior, preceding, before
Seeing the test needing a million computations,
Written in some bizarre scripted form,
The test asking to figure something like:
Calculate the mass of last nights thunderstorm.
Then: “What? Huh? Oh man, I’m in trouble,
Does it matter if every answer is guessed?”
The “I had no idea of any of that”,
Finishes with, "That was an easy maths test?”
We were first introduced at the prime age of 5
at a time when my interest was soon multiplied
and every addition to my knowledge of your ways
made it exponentially clear this was not just a phase
and any attempt to divide up my focus
or subtract my attention with daft hocus pocus
was an infinite waste of time far better spent
of that I am sure of, 100 percent
for what else could equal your clear clever style
which I can always work out though it may take a while
we've had peaks and had troughs in our journey since then
but each year my love grows by the power of n.
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