Part 1 of 3
Choose your terms
Pick 5 to 7 words that matter — words that describe who you are, name what you love, or hold something important in your life. Type each word and press ADD: it takes its place as a term of your equation, in its own color. Not sure a word belongs? Add it anyway — you can remove any term with its ✕ and choose again. Then name one thing more: the future profession you aspire to — it joins the equation last, held in parentheses.
In algebra, a word or letter that stands for something is a variable, each quantity being added is a term, and the result of adding is a sum. Your equation states that the sum of your words equals you — and the parentheses at the end hold your future profession as a single entity: one more term, still becoming.
In addition to your 5–7 words: the person you aspire to become. It joins the equation last, inside parentheses — algebra's way of seeing everything they hold as one single entity: the future you.
Part 2 of 3
Order by importance
Rank your terms: drag a term by its handle (or use the arrows) until your most important word sits on top. The number multiplying a term is its coefficient — the more of you a word holds, the greater its coefficient. With seven terms your top word carries a coefficient of 7; with five, a 5 — stepping down to the least important word, whose coefficient of 1 is, by algebra's own custom, never written.
The bottom term keeps a coefficient of 1 — and a coefficient of 1 is invisible: familia already means 1 · familia.
Part 3 of 3
Weave the poem
Now write a poem that carries every term of your equation. Any kind of poem works — rhyming or free verse, long lines or short. As you write, watch your equation: each term lights up in its color the moment your poem uses it, and the poem shows each one glowing right in your lines. Your title counts too.
Print your project
Your whole project on one sheet: your equation, and the poem it became. What you see below is exactly what prints.
Paper
The worksheets
The same project for pencils: two pages, exactly as they print. Parts 1 and 2 share the first page; the poem gets a full page of its own.
1Choose your terms
Pick 5 to 7 words that describe who you are, name what you love, or hold something that matters to you. Print one word per line — each becomes a term of your equation — and circle what kind of word it is.
My future profession — it closes the equation, inside parentheses:
2Order by importance
Rank your words: write your most important word beside the greatest number — the numbers are the coefficients, standing in exactly the order they'll take in your equation. Chose 7 words? Your top word sits beside the 7. Chose 5? Start beside the 5 and leave the 7 and 6 empty. Your last word's coefficient of 1 is never written.
Now write your finished equation: your first name, an equals sign, every term with its coefficient, and your future profession in parentheses at the end.
3Weave the poem
Write a poem that uses every term of your equation — your future profession too. Any kind of poem works: rhyming or free verse, long lines or short. When a line of your poem uses one of your words, underline that word.
Title