Kate Williams

Here’s my poem, ‘A Meal for your Maths Teacher’, Highly Commended in the international YorkMix Poems for Children 2021 competition – just to send a warning out to any over-mathsy teachers out there!

A MEAL FOR YOUR MATHS TEACHER

If your teacher’s the sort of creature
to set a nasty sum,
distract her with a meal of maths
to fill her mathsy tum.

Percentage pies with fraction fries,
divided by one third,
with peas in threes and chives in fives
and a cube of lemon curd.

Let the mixture boil away
until you hear it hum.
Then keep your teacher munching,
so she can’t set you a sum.

For drinks, Seven-Up or Fifteen-Down,
or a mug of multiplication,
or a cup of tea times 0.3 –
to the nearest calculation.

That’ll keep your teacher quiet
and give you all some rest –
and do the same with letters
if she starts a spelling test.

Kate Williams

Or listen/view here (click for link)

Big congrats to the winners of this huge competition (almost 650 entries).
Read/listen/watch winning and runner-up entries here: YorkMix Poems For Children Winners 2020-21.