Wednesday, February 25, 2026

Week 8: A focus on mathematical novels, poetry and other literature


Hello everyone! I hope that everyone is doing OK, with many
of our group coming down with colds and
flu... Please take good care, avoid getting sick, and if you are already feeling poorly, get well soon!

Here is our 'everything sheet' for our next week's classes, with a focus on mathematics, poetry, novels and kids' books. Hope you enjoy it!

We will be having Vancouver mathematics professor and mathematical poet Lisa Lajeunesse as our guest speaker in class in the upcoming weeks too! Looking forward to her presentation and activities with us very much.

PS: In case we have time to work with these, here are PDFs of the chapters of the excellent kids/young adult math novel, The Number Devil:

Folder of PDFs of chapters

And here is Mike Naylor's wonderful, simple mathematical poem (only two distinct words and eight short lines):

Hero, Run!

Hero, hero, hero,

Hero, hero, run!

Hero, run, hero -- 

Hero, run, run!


Run, hero, hero

Run, hero, run!

Run, run, hero --

Run, run, run!


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