By Chris Boyd:
Four plus the difference between
The factorial of six and the mean
Of twelve squared and four
Hundred three (plus one more)
Equals double the square of fifteen.
{ 2006 08 11 }
Things that amuse me…
{ 2006 08 11 }
By Chris Boyd:
Four plus the difference between
The factorial of six and the mean
Of twelve squared and four
Hundred three (plus one more)
Equals double the square of fifteen.
Christopher Boyd | 30-Mar-11 at 9:24 pm | Permalink
I did, indeed, write this limerick. It was in 2005 or 2006 at a district staff development day. I was teaching fourth grade at the time. I was inspired by John Saxon’s limerick to write my own, and I soon found it wasn’t as easy as it seemed to find rhymes for the types of math words that one might use in an equation such as his. The most obvious difficulty was tweaking the values in such a way that a true equation could match a rhyming limerick. It took me the better part of three hours to write it, but now my students have something interesting to look at every year.