Music Multiples #2: Math Expressions

Art Form: Music

Subject: Math

Grade Level: 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade

Specialist: Loretta Walker

Make the connection between the patterns and symbolic mathematical notation of factors, products, dividends, divisors, quotients, and arrays.

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Resources

  • One or more recordings of music at a steady tempo in meters that match the factors being studied.
  • Music playback equipment
  • White board or document camera
  • A video of this lesson is available at HERE

Fine Art Standards

SINGING Keep a steady beat in patterns of strong and weak beats

Integrated Standards

MATH: OPERATIONS & ALGEBRAIC THINKING Factors and Multiples

Objectives

Students will write or draw mathematical expressions representing patterns of strong and weak beats.