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Carolyn Custis James: Higher Math

Wed, 03/21/2007 - 04:07 — Carolyn Custis James

Carolynjames_0101_e_portrait2_3 It has been a long time since I was in a math class.  But the other day, while listening to Garrison Keiller’s Writer’s Almanac on NPR, I was suddenly back in the classroom.  He was reading Jessica Goodfellow’s poem entitled, “The Invention of Fractions.” I stopped what I was doing to listen.  In his smooth baritone voice,

Keillor began,

   God created the whole numbers:

     the first born, the seventh seal . . .

I was about to get a thought provoking lesson on Higher Math. Read more