IT AIN'T OVER TILL the Math Lady Sings - Softcover

Goosby, Michelle Whitehurst

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1490744274 ISBN 13: 9781490744278

Verlag: Trafford, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

Math Poetry, an extraordinary venture to say the least, is my way of taking mathematics to the next level as I see it. My collection includes math applications in verse, mathematical enigmas and teasers, expository math poetry, and a rhythmic math rap. This is an old story that has sparked my interest since childhood. I grew up showered with nursery rhymes and songs. My mother sung numerous nursery rhymes and songs to me and my brothers and sisters as we were growing up back in the early 60's. I absolutely loved it. Since both math and writing are two of my favorite pastimes, a merger between the two was inevitable. As I was enthralled in my writing, I threw in some fascination, imagination, and exhilaration in an effort to capture the interest of the reader

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It Ain't Over till the Math Lady Sings

By Michelle Whitehurst Goosby

Trafford Publishing

Copyright © 2014 Michelle Whitehurst Goosby
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-4907-4427-8

Contents

Introduction, ix, 
Biography, xi, 
MATH APPLICATIONS IN VERSE, 1, 
1. To Kaleb A Profit Speaks, 3, 
2. Five Divas Dressed To The Nines, 4, 
3. Five Naturals Consecutively Odd, 5, 
4. Rosemary Michelle's Not So Simple Interest, 6, 
5. Aiden Isaiah's For Every Mile, How Many Cents?, 7, 
6. My Latest Fascination, 8, 
7. Alias LCM, 9, 
8. My Fabulous Home Pathetically Sits On, 10, 
MATHEMATICAL ENIGMAS, 11, 
1. Me In A Nutshell, 13, 
2. Two Sisters Running Neck And Neck, 14, 
3. An Optimist And A Pessimist, 15, 
4. Not On Your Table Today Is Laid, 16, 
5. Oh, How You Depend On Me Part I, 17, 
6. Oh, How You Depend On Me Part II, 18, 
EXPOSITORY MATH PROSE, 19, 
1. The Emancipation Application, 21, 
2. Math Phobia, 22, 
3. Poetical Eradication, 23, 
4. Magically So, 24, 
5. TURNING THE WORM, 26, 
I LEAVE YOU WITH THESE THOUGHTS, 29, 
Beauty Is Me!!!, 31, 

CHAPTER 1

MATH APPLICATIONS IN VERSE

TO KALEB A PROFIT SPEAKS

A PROFIT speaks to Kaleb Who By The Way
Is Enthralled in a shopping spree.
"You will receive a forty percent discount
On ten pairs of designer jeans."
"You'll add to your cart a 60 inch HDTV
With a built-in player DVD
Priced for $1000 more than, I decree,
The price before discount on ten pairs of jeans."
But the price after the discount is received
On the ten pairs of these designer jeans."
Plus the whopping price of the HDTV
With the built-in player DVD
The total amount for these items far thus
Save calculations of local taxes and such,
Is a whopping forty Benjamins plus
twenty Ten Dollar Bills, it appears as much.
The PROFIT declares as Kaleb attempts to pay,
"Your wallet is destined to shriek whoa!"
"You will not buy these items today."
"This transaction you `re destined to forego."
Kaleb's shopping spree is but a mere dream it seems.
So embarrassed indeed, he wants to flee the scene.
Designer jeans, ten pairs, But he has just enough
To cover the sale price, which amounts to what?


FIVE DIVAS
DRESSED TO THE NINES

Five divas waltzed into our church one Sunday,
Each one of them dressed to the nines.
Niecy, Muriel, Monica,
Jacqueline, and Caroline.
Niecy beats Muriel's age twice,
so it undeniably appears.
Caroline and Jacqueline lag behind
Niecy by seven years.
Muriel is exactly two years more
than Monica's age thrice.
Tell me how old is each diva,
if twenty-two years lie between the five?


FIVE NATURALS
CONSECUTIVELY ODD

Five naturals, consecutively odd
Whose sum is the product of two primes
The total is also coincidentally construed
As half the amount of thirteen ten times.
There is one series of naturals
That have this claim to fame.
A composite and prime combo,
This natural series, can you name?
And my friend if you would be so kind
That is, if you would not mind,
Would you devote some precious time
To tell me the sum's two factors prime?


ROSEMARY MICHELLE'S
NOT SO SIMPLE INTEREST

As Rosemary Michelle tickles the ivories,
She deeply thinks to herself.
What a blessing it is to have such a gift.
What a blessing to have such wealth.
Her recent concert earned her 200 Grand
Part of which for four years she invests
At 3 percent annual simple interest rate
So what did she do with the rest?
At 2 percent annual simple interest rate
She invests the rest for four years in a CD
But what did she invest at each interest rate
If in interest 22 grand is received?


AIDEN ISAIAH'S
FOR EVERY MILE,
HOW MANY CENTS?

As Aiden Isaiah was traveling
on the interstate he thought
What is it costing me per mile
To drive this car I just bought?
With the high price of gasoline
The tune of three eighty-five
Per gallon I'm forced to pay
That is, if I want to drive
The digital reading on my vehicle's panel
Displays twenty-four and six-tenths
Miles per gallon, so it's costing me
For every mile how many cents?


MY LATEST FASCINATION

My latest fascination, an alluring line of sight
Infinitely rising as it moves from left to right
Characterized by an elevation and then an intriguing shift
Respectively a northern third and a simple eastward fifth
Upon it there distinctly lies uncountable structured mates
One of which is a westward seven and a southern eight.
Tell me the precise locality of my latest fascination.
An alluring line of sight with no apparent destination


ALIAS LCM

The least common multiple of a series such as this?
Eight, thirty-nine, twenty-seven, and fifty-six.
Since guessing can be a long futile task,
"Where on earth do I start?" I desperately ask.
Discovering the answer certainly can't be done on a whim.
When finding the least common multiple, alias LCM.
As I list multiples while on such a laborious adventure.
I am suddenly reminded, "Prime factorization is the clincher."
Finding the answer using this foolproof process is the key.
Once I am done with prime factorization, I am home free.
Always go for the most when looking for the least
The greatest number of occurrences of the factors each
In any one factorization dictates the number of times
The factor will occur in the LCM I aim to find
The product of these factors; the bull's eye I've hit
The least common multiple of a series such as this


MY FABULOUS HOME
PATHETICALLY SITS ON

Rectangular in shape, my fabulous home pathetically sits on
A lot where choking weeds, wild grass exponentially have grown
Forty inches high on both sides, including both the front and back
Until my rectangular lot is mowed, my bags I humbly pack.
My fabulous home, 90 by 50 feet, for everyone to see sits pathetically
On my enormous lot, 200 by 90 feet, scorned by those close in proximity
Tell me the area where exponentially, choking
weeds and wild grass have grown
Surrounding, rectangular in shape, what I still call my fabulous home?

CHAPTER 2

MATHEMATICAL ENIGMAS

ME IN A NUTSHELL

I am proud as a peacock, yet meek as a lamb.
You cannot imagine just who I am.
My authenticity, it captures me well.
I categorically say this is Me in a Nutshell.
My affiliates end up at places one or more.
Many go on to places unexplored.
Some are constrained by a head and a foot.
Some actually move on while staying put.
My affiliates can be natural, whole, or prime.
Many are infinite and well defined.
Some are ice cold and piping hot.
Some make sense and some do not.
One of my affiliates is nothing to me.
Yet with her the rest of us maintain our identity.
Exponentially she brings the rest of us down to one.
With her as a multiplier our work is done.
Making my path through thorns in my trail,
Not deterred or interrupted, I always prevail.
I can break down dimes, nickels and pennies.
I am many as one and one as many.
Money in the bank at some point terminates.
Peace of mind may come but a day.
Hairs on your head and the...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Trafford
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1490744274
• ISBN 13: 9781490744278
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 50
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