I loved listening to music. I may not be great at sining or writing songs, but I love to listening to music. Kids love listening to music. There are countless times in the classroom where I have heard children singing or writing down popular songs from the radio. Even for myself, there are times I catch myself singing in my head. I can still remember the lyrics to hundreds of songs from my childhood. So why not use music to our advantage when we study math. I think it would be really neat to write songs with important math concepts intertwined within it. We could ask students to write math songs for us as an extra credit or extension assignment. So as I was thinking about how I could incorporate music into math class I searched on YouTube for possibilities that already existed and now I have one of the refrains stuck in my head!
Math is Fly"
We do math, subtract, you know this (PEMDAS)
Multiply, divide, exponents
Math is fly, no lie, its easy (PEMDAS)
Left to Right, oh my, stay focus"
I love this song! It has a great message and the middle school students in this video really seem to enjoy it.
I also found some other great math songs...check them out!
Middle School Teachers created this video with their students:What You Know About Math?
California teacher using math raps to engage students: The Math Rapper
I am definitely going to use music in my math class as it seems to have some promising results!
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