Your older math students will LOVE this CD! These songs are delightful and fun and cover a lot more than basic addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
Come discover the creative and clever song lyrics presented in a wide variety of musical styles. Each song is designed to help children of all ages learn and remember important mathematical concepts and enjoy themselves at the same time.
"Music stirs emotion, which has an important effect on memory. Singing songs about algorithms, exponents, quotients, and circumference helps students internalize the vocabulary and the mathematical concepts as well." Harry Guffee
1) RHYTHM OF THE ALGORITHM (a/b x c/d = a x c / b x d) This catchy "live" recording will provide you with an easy way to remember how to multiply fractions. Click to Hear Sample
2) YOU’RE MY EXPONENT, BABY Steel guitar and harmonica lend a 1950s flavor as you are introduced to "one of the most powerful little figures in the whole world of mathematics." Click to Hear Sample
3) THE GUZINTA FAMILY (Daddy, Mother Sister, Brother) For help with long division, the "GOES INTO" FAMILY will show you the way. Click to Hear Sample
4) IT IS FOUR (Based on "Four" by Miles Davis) New lyrics set to this jazz classic celebrate the many manifestations of the number "4." 5) MATHSPEAK (The Vocabulary Song) This energetic "math mouthful" raps out a series of math terms from A (Angle) to Z (Zero) that will help you become familiar with a whole vocabulary of words used in math. 6) CIRCLE OF FRIENDS Click to Hear Sample (Ray Dius. Sir Cumference, and Lady Diameter) This tender ballad examines the relationship between three close friends and will provide you with a clever way to remember the formula for PI. Check out the piano solo!
7) CIEN, MUY BIEN This up tempo Latin-flavored crowd pleaser names the multiples of ten in Spanish and is sung as a round. It’s a great chance to brush up on multiplication and Spanish at the same time! 8) KARL F. GAUSS (And The Rainbow Rule) This country blues narration tells the true story of how a 10 year old boy developed "The Rainbow Rule" so that he could find the sum of integers from 1 to 100. Now you can too! 9) PLEASE EXCUSE MY DEAR AUNT SAL (Order of Operations) PEMDAS is a mnemonic device that was created to help you learn how to remember the order of operations used around the world-parentheses, exponents, multiplication and division, addition and subtraction. 10) EVERYBODY DO THE MATH! This pulsating "Eurotech" tune with a driving beat reminds you that math is an important part of everyone’s life - everyday!
