JoAnne Growney

@BrandonLuuMD My own experience agrees!

Students who took notes by hand scored ~28% higher on conceptual questions than laptop note-takers. Writing forces your brain to process and compress ideas instead of copying them.

Celebrate Math-Arts Connections with Sarah Hart. Learn more at poetrywithmathematics.blogspot.com/2025/05/an-ams…

April is National Poetry Month and Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month -- celebrate both with a visit to my blog -- at poetrywithmathematics.blogspot.com

@MathigonOrg Find even more celebration of Ada Lovelace at this link: poetrywithmathematics.blogspot.com/2024/10/ada-lo…

Ada Lovelace was born 209 years ago #onthisday. She wrote the world’s first computer program, which calculated Bernoulli numbers, and worked with Charles Babbage on the Analytical engine. Learn more at mathigon.org/timeline/lovel…

@StA_Maths_Stats @FindingAda I join you in celebrating Ada -- poetrywithmathematics.blogspot.com/2024/10/ada-lo…

October 8 is this year's ADA LOVELACE Day. Celebrate Ada and other women in STEM! To celebrate with POETRY, visit poetrywithmathematics.blogspot.com/2024/10/ada-lo…

If you haven't enjoyed a mathy poem for a while, now's the time -- visit "Intersections -- Poetry with Mathematics" at poetrywithmathematics.blogspot.com

Is "a baker's dozen" part of your math history? Enjoy it in a poem -- here: #more" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">poetrywithmathematics.blogspot.com/2024/09/favori…

@WVIATVFM Oh, dear! We need to have more concern for those we imprison -- to help them recover good lives!

Prisoner of addiction: Luzerne County inmate suffers through recovery without methadone wvia.org/news/local/202…

@Joseph_Fasano_ Here is a link to a collection of possibilities . . .joannegr.dot5hosting.com/page6.html

I'm always looking for new contemporary poems to show my students. If you have a poem (either yours or someone else's) that you think would be great for the classroom, please share it here?

Enjoy exploration of math-poetry connections at poetrywithmathematics.blogspot.com. The latest post involves creating new poems by sampling old ones. Enjoy!!

Browse and enjoy some math-poetry connections: visit poetrywithmathematics.blogspot.com

@BridgesMathart On Sunday, August 4, read and hear and enjoy MATHY POETRY at the Bridges 2024 Conference in Richmond. More information here: poetrywithmathematics.blogspot.com/2024/07/bridge…

@Joseph_Fasano_ Here is a link to Heaney's wonderful poem "Weighing In" -- a poem that also opens many doors . . .poetrywithmathematics.blogspot.com/2013/08/a-squa…

Today's Poetry Thread: OPEN One of the great tasks is to open up in a world that often closes us. Feel free to add poems that help us open to wonder, to each other, to love.

The end of the semester is here . . . and Hofstra math professor Johanna Franklin shares her students' mathy Haiku: at poetrywithmathematics.blogspot.com/2024/05/haiku-…

Math-Poetry Poster FREE -- presents winning 2023-24 contest poems . . . share with students you know . . . encourage them to enter next year's contest!

Today is National Scrabble Day -- celebrate with a visit to x.com/dc_scrabblegra…

@TheAtlantic One of my favorite FROST lines is "We dance around in a ring and suppose . . . but the secret sits in the middle and knows." Read more here: poetrywithmathematics.blogspot.com/2023/03/is-pro…

Robert Frost was born on this day in 1874. After a few rejections, The Atlantic published in 1915 three of Frost's most famous poems—“The Road Not Taken,” “Birches,” and “The Sound of Trees”—as well as a glowing introduction to the poet: theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

Today, March 23, is the birthday of mathematician Emmy Noether. Celebrate this outstanding math-woman with a poem: poetrywithmathematics.blogspot.com/2024/03/they-s…

@WWMGT This wonderful woman's name is Doris Schattschneider!