The Joy of Shapes

Christina Sng for Maths@Singapore

You’ve taught me to count,

You’ve taught me to measure.

You’ve taught me how to calculate

The insides of circles and triangles.

Let’s not forget the marvelous insides

Of squares and rectangles.

They are only two-dimensional.

If you want to count sides,

We have the pentagon, hexagon,

Heptagon, octagon, nonagon, decagon!

Now, three-dimensional shapes are fun.

They are shaped like us!

We have cones, cubes, cuboids,

Cylinders, pyramids, and spheres.

Do you know a doughnut

Is called a torus?

There are many more shapes

Waiting to be measured

And even more waiting

To be appreciated!

Celebrate shapes today!

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For more information about shapes, visit https://thirdspacelearning.com/blog/what-are-2d-and-3d-shapes/

Thanks to Elena Koycheva @lenneek for making this photo available freely on Unsplash

Author

Christina Sng is a three-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author that finds peace in mathematics and the macabre. Her poetry, fiction, essays, and art appear in Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, Interstellar Flight Magazine, and The Washington Post. Aside from having over 20 years of experience in the field of writing, she also has an extensive background in UX design and IT. Her educational background combined with her interests and neverending curiosity about the world is the perfect recipe to have her tackle fascinating topics about math. She is able to approach the highly logical field of mathematics through an extremely creative lens that sheds new light and exposes new avenues on how it impacts our lives.