Math Problems

December 22, 1985

The Lake County school district is promoting student writing in all subject areas through a program called WITS -- ''Writing Is Teaching Skills.'' The program, under which students might write poems about math or essays about historic events, is designed to help them improve organizational and critical thinking skills.

Witty, the program's tophat-bedecked logo, will accompany the student writing in a traveling showcase that will be displayed in the school district administration building in Tavares and at major county events.

Add, subtract, multiply, divide

The rules of math are certainly wide

And though you try with all your might,

The answer you come up with is never right

-- Kerry Nicholson


I add, multiply, divide and subtract,

This stuff is hard and that's a fact!

The problem's a killer, it's hard as a rock,

Oh no! I'm getting a mental block!

I think and I think but solutions don't come,

What's the answer to this mystery sum?

Finally, I've reached the bitter sweet end,

What! A mistake? I'm starting again.

-- Tracy Stiver

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