Wednesday’s poetry corner.

I just spent the last 45 minutes being tutored in basic algebra and geometry by my 13 year old son in order to prepare for the math portion of the AEPA. My son understands math better than I do and did a pretty decent job of explaining when you subtract minus you may end up with a positive. Who knew? Well maybe all of you did, but I forgot it a long tome ago. So with that in mind I wanted to find a good math poem and I found this one by Jimmy Buffett. It pretty much sums up how I feel about math. I hope you all get a chuckle out of it.


MATH SUKS
by Jimmy Buffett,
from Beach House on the Moon


If necessity is the mother of invention
The I'd like to kill the guy who invented this.
The numbers come together in some kind of third dimension
A regular algebraic bliss.

Let's start with something simple, like one and one ain't three
And two plus two will never get you five.
There are fractions in my subtraction and x don't equal y
But my homework is bound to multiply.

Math suks. math suks.
I'd like to burn this textbook, I hate this stuff so much.
Math suks. math suks.
Sometimes I think that I don't know that much
But math suks.

I got so bored with my homework, I turned on the TV.
The beauty contest winners were all smiling through their teeth.
Then they asked the new Miss America
Hey babe can you add up all those bucks?
She looked puzzled, then just said,
"Math suks".

Math suks. math suks.
You don't even have to spell it,
All you have to do is yell it...
Math suks. math suks.
Sometimes I think that I don't know that much
But math suks.

Geometry, trigonometry and if that don't tax your brain
There are numbers too big to be named.
Numerical precision is a science with a mission
And I think it's gonna drive me insane.

Parents fighting with their children, and the Congress can't agree
Teachers and their students are all jousting constantly.
Management and labor keep rattling old sabres
Quacking like those Peabody ducks.

Math suks. math suks.
You don't even have to spell it,
All you have to do is yell it...
Math suks. math suks.
Sometimes I think that I don't know that much
But math suks.
Taken from this web site: http://www.doe.virginia.gov/Div/Winchester/jhhs/math/poetry/mathpoet.html
There are a lot of fun math songs and poems at this site if you happen to be a math geek.