MATH POEM

I am the absolute crest of prudence.

No bounds limit me to be of predisposition.
I stand to avow the notation of surmise;
The matrix from a distance that labels infinity.

I am the absolute crest of prudence.

I learned not to deceive nor con reality.
Parallelism is the perimeter of my enterprise.
Conversion of impracticality negates my stand.

I am the absolute crest of prudence.

Real and imaginary, I cannot distinguish.
Through forth and by parts, I learned to integrate.
My Master’s harangue, bewildering my persona.

I am the absolute crest of prudence.

I live beyond the parameter of my plane.
Pointless of where I plug myself,
In the tyranny of axes that transverse my being.

I am the absolute crest of prudence

Often I intersect the parody of function.
Endlessly seeking the summit of equilibrium,
I demand optimization in my undertaking.

I am the absolute crest of prudence.

Alone, I set the algorithm of cardinality.
Flung afar in distant Mesopotamia,
I thrive not for nostalgia, as I evaluate.

I am the absolute crest of prudence.

Despite my odd acumen, I am complex.
I set the asymptotes to where I extend
My line of caution, the frontier of my existence.

I am the absolute crest of prudence.

Bestowed upon me, a task of probability.
I craft the symmetry of life in all dimensions.
Proudly, for some, I do not exist.
 MATH QUOTES

A mathematician is a] scientist who can figure out anything except such

simple things as squaring the circle and trisecting an angle. ~Evan Esar,
Esar's Comic Dictionary

"Every minute dies a man, Every minute one is born;" I need hardly point
out to you that this calculation would tend to keep the sum total of the
world's population in a state of perpetual equipoise, whereas it is a well-
known fact that the said sum total is constantly on the increase. I would
therefore take the liberty of suggesting that in the next edition of your
excellent poem the erroneous calculation to which I refer should be
corrected as follows: "Every moment dies a man, And one and a sixteenth is
born." I may add that the exact figures are 1.067, but something must, of
course, be conceded to the laws of metre. ~Charles Babbage, letter to
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, about a couplet in his "The Vision of Sin"

Math is radical! ~Bumper Sticker

There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full
Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to
the page, a gossamer web. They seemed insubstantial when you first saw
them, a string of squiggles. Yet to follow the delicate tensors as they
contracted, as the superscripts paired with subscripts, collapsing
mathematically into concrete classical entities - potential; mass; forces
vectoring in a curved geometry - that was a sublime experience. The iron
fist of the real, inside the velvet glove of airy mathematics. ~Gregory
Benford, Timescape

It is a mathematical fact that fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the

bottom half of their class. ~Author Unknown

If two wrongs don't make a right, try three. ~Author Unknown

Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head. ~Carl
Sandburg, "Arithmetic"
 MATH TRIVIA
1. A hexagon is a polygon that has _____ straight sides?
2. ____ are whole numbers which will not split up into two exactly.
3. What straight line drawn from one point on the circumference of a circle
through the centre to another point on the circumference of the circle is
called?
4. What is half of a dozen?
5. A set which is a part of another set is called a what?
6. what is the plural of radius?
7. There are how many millions in a billion?
8. What is the name of an instrument made of rods and beads used for
counting?
9. What "M' means less or "take away"?
10. How many sides has a heptagon have?
Answers
1. Six (6)
2. Odd numbers
3. Diameter
4. 6
5. Subset
6. Radii
7. Thousand millions
8. Abacus
9. Minus
10. 7
 MATH PRAYER

Dear Father in heaven,

Thank you for all the blessings you have added to my life, to my family,
friends, classmates and teachers. May the sum of these gifts multiply your
goodness and grace as Lord and savior guide us to the way that is true so
there may be no division from your grace. Let me be the multiplier of your
goodness and let no evil be a divisor of all men.
Supply and multiply the seed of your righteousness in and through me, so
that I may rightly divide the word of truth and present myself to you as a
worker who does not need to be ashamed. For you are worthy of all praise
and deserve nothing less than my best, as there is no other god who is equal
to or greater than you and subtract the points you do not want from me
but add the values you have set for me,
Divide the dividends I possess accordingly
so I can multiply them systematically.
May my thoughts also be a sweet savor to you as I count your blessings to
infinity, in Jesus name, Amen!
 MATH SONG

GRAPH THAT POLYNOMIAL

WORDS BY: JOHN A. CARTER
TUNE: "SWING LOW SWEET CHARIOT"
Refrain: Graph that polynomial.
Graph it right here and now.
Just sketch that ole polynomial,
Hope you don't forget just how.
The first thing you ask yourself,
"is it even or odd degree?"
In other words, do its ends do this
or do they do one of these?
(Hold arms up then down for even, alternate for odd.)

(Refrain)
The next thing you have to locate
is the y-intercept.
This ole point's not too hard to find,
just sub zero in x.
(Refrain)
The next thing you have to find
are the x-intercepts.
Set each factor equal to zero,
then solve each for x.
(Refrain)
The next thing you ask yourself,
"Are these roots evens or odds?"
Does it pass on through or 'sit bounce back from
those x-intercept dots?

(Refrain)
The last thing you have to find
where's the max/min in here?
To answer this, you will need the Calculus.
You'll learn this next year!