Subject+Specific+Ideas

This is a place to pool resources about subject specific ideas for National Poetry Month.

**Math Ideas:**

 * **Poetry**—Writing and sharing poems is a popular way for middle school and high school students to share ideas and feelings. The creative process involved in writing poetry requires students to apply their understanding of math concepts to the task. Your students may enjoy presenting their poetry in a "Math Poetry Slam" event for other classes. A fun and easy poetry assignment is to have your students write haiku poems for geometric solids. (Haiku, and its three line, five syllable, seven syllable, five syllable format is quite appropriate for a math activity!) Take this haiku, for example:

//Triangular Prism// Triangular Prism Five faces, all flat Your straight edges count to nine Triangles—a must! >
 * **Fermat's Last Theorem Poetry Challenge** http://www.math.uic.edu/~jeremy/poetry.html
 * **Fermat's Last Theorem Poetry Challenge** http://www.math.uic.edu/~jeremy/poetry.html

Learning English In The Math & Science Classroom
http://www.nwrel.org/msec/nwteacher/winter2004/growing.html

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