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