How to Draw a Triangle When Given 3 Angles by Nancy Schatz Alton
Go to Google.
Type in: how to draw a triangle.
Watch: when given 3 angles pop up.
Click on the first choice.
Watch the ad.
Click the ad off.
Watch the man explain how to draw a triangle.
Show your daughter.
Forget how to do it before you finish.
Watch the video again.
Show your daughter.
Rest for a few days.
Listen as your daughter tells you
she can’t remember
how to draw a triangle.
Tell her you’ve got this.
Go to google again.
Pull up a chair for her next to your desk.
Watch the video together.
Hope you both remember this
until math class switches to a new unit.
Praise the world
for math tutors.
Think about triangles.
Wonder if you’ll remember every triangle
contains 180 degrees.
Wonder about why you speak English
while letting your knowledge of math narrow.
Think of how math pokes you with her sharp angles.
How you have caught glimpses of math’s magic
occasionally. How this magic was magical
and brief. Like a star flaming out.
Although you still hold some numbers close.
- 11. 27. You can’t live on a triangle.
You know how to draw one, given three angles,
right now. Protractor + Google = 180 degrees.