Math Music Topics
Many students learn through music. Witness the number of adults who easily sing the ABC song with their own children. Composers are beginning to develop math-specific songs to help students learn math concepts and skills. Whether teachers use a song to introduce or reinforce a concept, or as a regular part of calendar time, students are bound to benefit from the multi-sensory experience.
- Number & Operations
- Patterns & Algebra
- Geometry & Measurement
- Data Analysis, Probability & Discrete Math
- Calendar Math
- Math Lyrics
- Links
Number & Operations
- Bottles of Pop [number line] from BBC
- Hopping on the Number Line [integers] from Harcourt School Publishers
- How Easy Is That? [add & subtract fractions] from Harcourt School Publishers
- How Many Is Too Many [reasonable estimates] from Harcourt School Publishers
- Make Change [money] from Harcourt School Publishers
- The Number Line March from Harcourt School Publishers
- Pennies, Nickels, Dimes and Quarters from Harcourt School Publishers
- Sign of the Minus from BBC
- Sign of the Plus from BBC
- Skipping Song [skip counting] from Harcourt School Publishers
- Take It Away [subtraction] from Harcourt School Publishers
- Ten and Something More [numbers 11-20] from Harcourt School Publishers
- Ten Tens from Harcourt School Publishers
- Two and Two [doubles] from Harcourt School Publishers
- We Hang Together [fact families] from Harcourt School Publishers
Patterns & Algebra
- I Repeat [patterns] from Harcourt School Publishers
- Keeping it True [algebra] from Harcourt School Publishers
- The Mystery Number [variables] from Harcourt School Publishers
- No Equal Sign [expressions] from Harcourt School Publishers
Geometry & Measurement
- Get to the Point [coordinate pairs] from Harcourt School Publishers
- Measure and Measure [measurement] from Harcourt School Publishers
- A Minute Seems Like a Minute [time relationships] from Harcourt School Publishers
- Same Shape, Same Size [similar and congruent figures] from Harcourt School Publishers
- What Am I? [solid figures] from Harcourt School Publishers
Data Analysis, Probability & Discrete Math
- In a Nutshell [mean, median, mode] from Harcourt School Publishers
- The Red Ones Go with the Red Ones [sorting] from Harcourt School Publishers
- Sally Had a Birthday Cake [equal shares] from Harcourt School Publishers
Calendar Math
- Mrs. Meacham's Calendar Songs & Poems include songs to learn the Days of the Week, Months of the Year, Birthdays, Teeth, Weather, and Seasons
- Months, Days of the Week from CanTeach
Math Lyrics
- Multiplying Integers to the tune of Dem Bones
- Y=mx +b to the tune of YMCA
- Graphing a line in y=mx+b form to the tune of Old McDonald Had a Farm
- Math Songs Sing-a-Long [Algebra & beyond]
- Mathematical Poems and Songs
- Vicki Young's Math Songs and Poems
Links
Check these websites for information on the math CD's and to preview many of the songs and lyrics.
- Jack Hartmann: Songs for Teaching include these math CDs:
- Math All Around Me: includes The Alligator Chomp [patterns], Shake Your Shape, Birthdays, Count by 2s, Count by 5s, Countdown to Blastoff
- Math in Motion: includes Count by 10s, Counting 1-20, That Makes Cents to Me
- Movin' 2 Math: includes Mr. Alligator Can Chomp Song [greater and less than]
- Multiply by Music
- Steven Fite's Havin' Fun & Feelin Groovy includes: Seven Days a Week to the tune of the Beatle's Eight Days a Week, Twelve Months in a Year which includes both English and Spanish months and What's the Weather Outside
- Jennifer Fixman's We Love Math with Miss Jenny: includes Zero, the Hero, 100 Days of School, Money, Double It Up, The Pizza-Eating Alligator
- Judy & David's Math Jam CDs