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Poetic Geometry

Introduction

What do poetry and math have in common? The Mashed Potato Publishing Company has hired Mr. Mackrell's class to find out! Your role will be to merge geometry with poetry along with creating a series of labeled diagrams that reflects either the basic shapes used as the building blocks of all geometry skills or the basic postulates that begin to lead us down the path to discover other properties that occur within the world around us! Your poems will be part of a poetry collection that will surely be used by other teachers to revolutionize the teaching of geometry. Your success in working on this project is certain to influence future generations for years to come. Good luck.

Example

What's The Point?

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Geometry begins with a measly little dot, Smaller than even the faintest ink blot, Tinier even than the brain of a bee, Even littler than a drop in the sea,

More mini than even the thinnest nose hair , So minutely minute that it's not even there. But if there are two of these curiosities, They make a line segment with length, if you please.

( Add one more, and there's a triangle in store, Then a square is there as soon as there are four. Dot after dot builds a circular place; But three dimensions would take up more space.

So many little dots step outside the ring, And the final shape is an interesting thing. For when all is connected, what does appear? A big ball of points: a genuine sphere!