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Math Investigations

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students brainstorm how math is used in daily life. They develop a class list of different topic areas in which math is used and work in small groups to think of specific examples of how math is an important part of their lives.
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Math Learning Song The Learning 1-5 Song

For Teachers Pre-K - K
For this lesson, young scholars sing a song about the numbers and counting 1-5. Students mimic the teachers as she sings each verse starting with the number one and continue through the number 5. This song gives young scholars a guide...
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3rd Grade Math

For Teachers 3rd
In this math review instructional activity, 3rd graders complete multiple choice questions about shapes, money, weight, and more. Students complete 20 questions.
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Sing a Song of Science

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Using parodies of popular music to introduce and reinforce concepts in secondary classrooms.
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Study Jams! Addition with Regrouping

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
Zoe needs to back up her music collection, but do her friends have enough space on their computers to help? Find out as you teach your class how to add two- and three-digit numbers with regrouping. Place value is emphasized as both the...
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Squeebles Addition & Subtraction

For Students K - 3rd Standards
The math monster is at it again, this time stealing all the cars and drivers that were to take part in the cart race. If their addition and subtraction facts are up to the challenge, young mathematicians can win the drivers' freedom and...
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Button Bonanza

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Collections of data represented in stem and leaf plots are organized by young statisticians as they embark some math engaging activities.
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Math and Music: Fibonacci Sequence

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students investigate the mathematical patterns of the Fibonacci Sequence. They determine how math is connected to music, specifically looking at music the uses the pattern sequence found in the Fibonacci Sequence.
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Math, Music and Architecture: Kindergarten Geometry and Aesthetics in Music and Architecture

For Teachers K - 8th
Students identify and name different geometrical shapes. In this math instructional activity, students distinguish odd from even numbers. They describe the properties of 2 and 3 dimensional objects.
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Learning Math with Music

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students work in groups to create their own rhymes and songs for an entire family of math facts. They record their math facts creations using an iPod and a voice recorder for future use.
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Musical Hoops

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are introduced to the five health related concepts, muscular strength, muscular endurance, cardiovascular endurance, body composition and flexibility through a game of musical hoops which incorporates math operations.
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Jazz and Math: Rhythmic Innovations

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students compare and contrast the rhythms of marches and jazz. They watch an excerpt about Buddy Bolden from the PBS Ken Burns Jazz documentary, compare/contrast march and jazz rhythms, complete a worksheet, and notate and perform jazz...
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Musical Fractions

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this math and music learning exercise, students add notes to 4 bars of music so that each measure will have 4 beats. There is a chart provided with the notes and values.
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Jazz and Math: Improvisation Permutations

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students explore the various rhythmic combinations in jazz and blues music. They watch a video segment, apply a mathematical formula to calculate the number of possible rhythmic combinations, and perform a combination of notes and...
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Creating Musical Notation

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
In this creative music activity from Scientific American, young scholars learn about musical notation and then design their own notations. Great web resource links are alsp provided
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Sounds Like Music

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students define and examine the connections between sound and music and how engineers design instruments. They listen to examples of musical instruments, view a demonstration of a tuning fork and bottles filled with varying amounts of...
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American Indian Flute and Math

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students investigate the Math behind Musical instruments in this cross-curricular Math lesson plan on the Native American Flute and waveforms. The lesson plan can be accomplished in 6 days and includes an extensive materials list for...
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Hula Hoop Math

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students move about the area doing the teacher-directed locomotor action. When the music stops the teacher holds up a card with a problem. As soon as they come up with an answer they form into a group in a hoop with the number of...
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The Blues . Music Education

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
What ultimately influences a musician's creations? Is it the time in which he/she lives, his/her personal experiences, the music of the time and previous times, or the image the artist hopes to convey? This lesson explores these...
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Seeing Music, Hearing Waves

For Students 11th
In this music activity, 11th graders incorporate fractions into their music scales and counting scales. They listen to the music being played and relate it to sine waves reviewing the trig function. There are 11 questions involving sine...
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The Blues . Music Education

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
In this lesson students will learn about finding the blues in a variety of musical styles. They will investigate instances of the blues form heard in mainstream pop music, along with exploring the musical styles of two new artists who...
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Math Vocabulary

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders participate in a creative way to learn and remember important math vocabulary. This lesson incorporates music to help students remember the meaning of each math operation and the vocabulary associated with it. A very...
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Energetic Musical Instruments

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students apply the principles and concepts associated with energy and the transfer of energy in an engineering context through the designing and making of a musical instrument. After the accomplishment of the design, students must...
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Making Music

For Teachers K
Students create auditory musical patterns. In this patterns lesson, students create a pattern using their hands, feet, dancing, and snapping their fingers.  Students use a recorder to recreate a pattern.

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