Memories of learning maths at school.
I’m sitting in my maths class.
It really is such a bore.
I can’t remember, though I’m trying so hard,
How many nines are in fifty four.
I know a square has four sides,
And that a triangle has only three.
A circle is made up of three hundred and sixty degrees,
But that isn’t helping me.
A right angle is a square corner
There’s ninety degrees there I’m sure.
The angles of a triangle make one hundred and eighty
But the angles of a square make much more
There are seven eights in fifty six.
There are a hundred pence in a pound,
But the answer that I am so desperate for,
Is nowhere to be found.
Where can it be? What shall I do?
I really feel such a twit.
How come everyone else knows their tables so well?
Hang on… I’ve remembered it!
SIX !!!
Christine Ramsay
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