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Occasional Poetry - 74. Mathematics Review

Indulge me, I beg, I don't pull your leg; your math to review from Algebra II. But I doubt your old teacher did it this way....

Quadratics

Parabolas, you might suppose,
are curves which every person knows,
for you can find them everywhere,
from tropic heat to polar floes.

Equations with an x to square
are curves, not lines, when you compare
them side by side with x that's plain,
or lines bereft of x and bare.

The answer roots for which we strain
when the x-axis cuts in twain
a curve and marks its intersect
quadratic formulas obtain.

But no equation can reflect
our complex conjugate effect,
for as I kiss your curves and nose,
our roots, convergent, must connect.


Functions

A function graphed on paper can't
produce a circle, though I grant
such figures can be drawn with two
connected functions which supplant.

The function knows not what to do
when asked to make a curlicue;
back on itself it cannot turn,
no matter what the point of view.

Such problems make the stomach churn,
for x can't yield both stem and stern,
but we can plot them just the same
if parametrics you would learn.

Now function's form is not a game,
yet doubled would I bend your frame,
so my parameters you'd chant
while our relations I exclaim.

Even if these concepts proved elusive, I still appreciate comments of any kind or type.
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Parker Owens
3 minutes ago, BlindAmbition said:

Sir, I've always been a good student when it comes to learning functions.

 

Indeed? We can move from functions to relations, then...

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FormerMember4
2 minutes ago, Parker Owens said:

 

Indeed? We can move from functions to relations, then...

Thank you Sir. My life is dedicated to learning from lessons.

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Parker Owens
1 minute ago, BlindAmbition said:

Thank you Sir. My life is dedicated to learning from lessons.

 

We shall have lots of time to practice, then. 

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Drew Espinosa

Parker, these are simply amazing. These poems are brilliant in conveying those mathematical concepts, and make them all the more interesting in this style as opposed to the dry explanations one would find in a mathematical textbook.

 

Thank you for writing these delightful poems.

Drew

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Parker Owens
8 hours ago, Drew Espinosa said:

Parker, these are simply amazing. These poems are brilliant in conveying those mathematical concepts, and make them all the more interesting in this style as opposed to the dry explanations one would find in a mathematical textbook.

 

Thank you for writing these delightful poems.

Drew

 

Thank you, Drew! And knowing some mathematics makes them all the more fun. Mathematical textbooks are surely missing out by avoiding poetry altogether. But doing 'function aerobics' in PreCalculus class may not be quite the same...

 

thanks again. P

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Defiance19

Don't know whether it's a good or bad thing my maths teacher didn't use your methods.. She was an old bitty nun in an all girls school. Although.....

 

Very cool, and well done, as usual Parker.. 

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Parker Owens
11 minutes ago, Defiance19 said:

Don't know whether it's a good or bad thing my maths teacher didn't use your methods.. She was an old bitty nun in an all girls school. Although.....

 

Very cool, and well done, as usual Parker.. 

Thank you, Def. Not sure I can use this in my classes, either. 

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