Musical Math Fun!
WorksheetsIt All Adds Up worksheets - individual students can race for their best time, group classes can race each other. There are five levels
available, just click the picture on the left and scroll all the way down to Free Rythm Worksheets. Scale and Key Patterns with Oreos!What's black & white and yummy all over? Oreos!
My beginner class took apart Oreos and built the white and black pattern of C-B keys. My older class worked on WWHW pentascale patterns and were then challenged to figure out the WWHWWWH note pattern of the E Major scale, first on paper, then by correlating the note/key colors with the inner and outer parts of their Oreos! Yum! Click here for the .pdf activity for the old kids. Math/Science & MusicMusic can be experimental in many ways. You can learn about pitch through fractions - experimenting with glasses of various amounts of water and a spoon to tap them!
Great pinterest sites:
http://pinterest.com/teachmusic/musical-math/ http://pinterest.com/fortemac/math-music/ |
Teacher ResourcesSeven-Sided Die template! I have been wanting a seven-sided die and never felt like attempting to fold one out of paper myself. Well, one day my son came home with a template as part of his math homework! That was the first homework sheet I was genuinely excited to see! You can download the page at http://everydaymath.uchicago.edu/parents/3rd-grade/em-at-home/unit_6/. Just follow the orange column down to lesson 6-12, Polyhedrons, Part 2.
Food Fractions I really wanted to create a fun pizza game to help students understand note values. As I am learning, before I start something from scratch I check online to see if someone else has already mastered the idea...and again I find two great products from Mrs. Swedberg on her Made for Music Teachers blog: Music Composing with Pizza FractionsMmmm... Don't let your students play this when they are hungry! This .pdf offers 18 pizzas of notes and rests to make a variety of yummy rythms in 4/4 time.
Build a Cupcake Time SignatureThis is a super cute time signature activity where students
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