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Commentaries Math Poems   By Sarah Puglisi   Posted: 2013-02-24 Elementary teacher par excellence Sarah Puglisi went to a Math training in Accelerated Math, which included a math term dictionary. Sarah says she got lost inside and was inspired to write some poems. They are wonderful. Her daughter Sylvia, a math and science teacher, responded with some math poems of her own, inviting her students to try their hand at math poems, too. Go to Sarah's Facebook page for the rest, Asymptotes through Zero. A Asymptotes I am asymptotic, alas So far, as you can see, it's asymptomatic But I note That nothing quite reaches Where it is supposed to go, My intentions fall short, The psychiatrist I consulted Suggested lowering the bar But it's still missing the mark. More Commentaries

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