(I drew this when I was 10)
As you enter my website, Charlottehatesmath.com you will find art work, stories and poetry from kids ages 10-15. As you might guess from the website, I don’t like math. What I like is poetry - listening to it, writing it, singing it and sharing it. I also admire looking at art work, as well as making it. Math, on the other hand, is not one of my favorite subjects. You can’t communicate with it, its just a bunch of numbers. Oh yeah, and if you are a math wiz, this site is clearly not for you.
The Math Robber
Math class as you know
makes me feel as if I am caught in a fiery explosion or better yet, like a robber
is coming in and stealing my imagination, my artistic skills and creative mind.
Quick and sly he grabs my brain and heart and turns me into a heartless,
ignorant and boring person. I am being deprived of my imaginary paint-brush and
my Dixon number 2 pencil and gives me in return dull numbers and a little
symbol that looks like an X. He tells me to “multiply” or now that I’m in
Middle School, solve for x. I think what the hell is that for I am a word
collector and in my dictionary there is no such thing as “multiply.” The boring
X lesson goes on as I see him running away with my brain and heart. I chase
after him when the math lesson ends and the bell rings. I ask him to please
replace these numbers with the words from my dictionary. Finally I grab him in the hallway and he
places my brain back in its little nest of painted flesh. The melty red roses I
was painting come back to life and the descriptive poem I was writing falls
back word by word with a dot dot dot at the end where I left off. My pupils
come back and make my eyes look busy and full of wonder again not just the
vacant bland blue eyes I have when I look at math. Finally. I am now far away in my world, a world of which you
will never know.
This website is a work in progress-AND I am counting on you all to submit writing, artwork or photography for me to publish!!! I am also looking for contributors to my blog.
