POETICKS

You kids showed such good creative use of the idea of making mathematical poems, that I thought I would show you another kind of arithmetic you can use to make a poem: long division.  The above is an example.  To understand it all you have to do is treat it as a long division example that uses words (or pictures) instead of numbers.  That means it is telling us that if you divide “BIG” by “little,” your answer will be the sun–with a remainder of “Hi!”  It has a remainder because the sun times “little” doesn’t quite equal “BIG,” it equals a “smile” (or so I say!)  A smile, the poem says, needs to have “Hi!” added to it to equal “BIG.”  Okay, it doesn’t really make sense the way proper arithmetic does, but my hope is that it will give those who see it a happy feeling of a smile as something little that has been multiplied by the sun, and with a friendly greeting added to it become BIG. 

Anyway, I hope you enjoy my long division poem as much as I’ve enjoyed your addition poems, and that some of you will go on to make more mathematical poems.

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By the way, if you think you may be interested in the nutty way I think about long division, click HERE.
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