Celebrating our mathematical thinking

Odds and Evens

  • from a math-for-teachers research project by George Gadanidis & Immaculate Namukasa
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The sets of odds and evens
are mutually exclusive.
Eyes and ears are even
chins and noses are odd.
Even plus odd makes odd
two odds make even.
Street numbers are odd
just on one side.

Evens are the "good" guys
more easily divisible.
Odds are tricky
they are weird.
They have a bad reputation
they tip the scale.
Odds leave you
without a partner.

But, when hanging pictures,
an odd number is more appealing to the eye.
Odds are tricky
they are weird,
but more appealing to the eye,
more appealing to the eye