Dramatis persona*

helenhead Helen Chick

I've always wanted a bumper sticker that said "I'm a female, LDS/Mormon, Scout leading, geocaching, piano-playing, bicycling, mathematics educator with a PhD in maths ... and I VOTE"!

I think this makes me a minority group of cardinality 1!

* Since there's only one of me and "personae" is plural (I think), I've gone with dramatis persona.
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73. I Can’t [100 poems challenge]

 

73.          I Can’t

I’m here in a session on maths education
As part of some conf’rences now on day four,
To learn what kids think about function notation
And how good technology helps them explore;
And everyone seems to be paying attention
But I am quite certain that some of them aren’t,
While, at the same time, it’s my extra intention
To write a new poem, but maybe I can’t.

10 July 2013

 

Comments: Or perhaps I can! (Well, actually I really can’t, because I had intended it to be shorter and wittier, but I couldn’t get the “can’t” rhyme happening soon enough.) It’s just a little bit scary that the date this was written is so close to the date it was published, and the remaining buffer of “just-in-case-I-fall-behind poems” is shrinking.

Themes to come: 74. Are You Challenging Me? 75. Mirror; 76. Broken Pieces; 77. Test; 78. Drink

Explanation about the 100 poems challenge here.

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