Celebrating our mathematical thinking

Playing with Math

  • A poem by Marta Maria Kupiec
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We played with a rope
like kids with play dough
making triangles, circles, squares
what else we can we see
it’s a fence, a fence
how big can the area be?

We played with cubes
like little kids with blocks
colourful patterns
alternating colors
white is the fence
red is the area inside

We had fun, shaping and laughing, la la lala la la la
We had fun, shaping and laughing, la la lala la la la

We played with math
with ropes and blocks
forgetting the time of the day
absorbed in math
like children playing

on a math playground.

We had fun, shaping and laughing, la la lala la la la
We had fun, shaping and laughing, la la lala la la la