Beethoven’s Ninth & Dotplots

Art Form: Music

Subject: Math

Grade Level: 6th Grade

Specialist: Rebecca Penerosa

Integrate music with math with data collection and plotting along with music appreciation.

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Fine Art Standards

  • MUSIC OBJECTIVE 2: Perceive and respond to the messages in music and the use of music elements.
  • Demonstrate familiarity with suggested listening selections. Strategy Example:
  • Identify the piece on hearing the music by telling a story connected with the writing of the piece and/or naming the title or composer. After being told the composer/title, hum the tune, tap the rhythm, or describe the music in terms of pitch, volume, tempo, timbre, and style.

Integrated Standards

  • MATH 6.SP.A: Develop understanding of statistical variability.
  • 1. Recognize a statistical question as one that anticipates variability in the data related to the question and accounts for it in the answers. For example, “How old am I?” is not a statistical question, but “How old are the students in my school?” is a statistical question because one anticipates variability in students’ ages.
  • 2. Understand that a set of data collected to answer a statistical question has a distribution which can be described by its center, spread, and overall shape.
  • MATH 6.SP.B: Summarize and describe distributions.
  • 4. Display numerical data in plots on a number line, including dot plots, histograms, and box plots.
  • Relating the choice of measures of center and variability to the shape of the data distribution and the context in which the data were gathered.

Objectives

  • Students will be able to identify the shape of a melody
  • Students will be able to recognize the initial melodic motive of Beethoven’s ninth symphony.
  • Students will be able to complete data entry through the use of dot plots and the make connections between their overall shape and the shape of a melody line.