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Radical Numbers
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Ever wonder if numbers were cast as characters? These are things that I wondered about during my 8th grade algebra class.
This poetry suite contains the following poems:
- The Misunderstood Life of Three
- Seven Is Up to Something
- The Eighth Wonder
- Number 5, the Mobster
Description
The Misunderstood Life of Three | by J. J. Jonas
Three defends itself against accusations of crowding couples, wobbling chairs, and ruining secrets. In J. J. Jonas’s comic number-line monologue, the proud oddball claims its rightful place in triangles, fairy tales, harmony, magic, and every joke that needs one more ingredient.
Seven Is Up to Something | by J. J. Jonas
Seven lounges across a student’s worksheet boasting about weeks, rainbows, dwarfs, luck, and prime-number charisma. J. J. Jonas turns the familiar digit into a swaggering showman who irritates the orderly integers and makes mathematics suspiciously entertaining.
The Eighth Wonder | by J. J. Jonas
Ollie’s obsession with Eight spreads from grocery-store peas to octagons, spiders, mustard diagrams, and an unauthorized laundromat lecture. J. J. Jonas tracks the contagion until the narrator begins cutting sandwiches into eight perfect squares and dreaming in balanced loops.
Number 5, the Mobster | by J. J. Jonas
Five runs Arithmetic Alley in a pinstripe suit, collecting protection from digits and threatening division to anyone who resists. J. J. Jonas recasts multiplication, decimals, primes, fractions, and the metric system as a numerical crime syndicate ruled by one unsplittable odd number.
