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Connects Music to Mathematics

Nielsen 20% Beethoven
Musical themes are the same even if they are played in different styles. Likewise, numbers have the same value even if they appear in different forms such as fractions and percentages.
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Wojcik Building Musical Knowledge
Students will understand that each musical instrument is unique and belongs to one of four musical instrument families.
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Carreiro Earthquake Music
Students will understand that earthquakes and the waves they produce can be used to write or make music.
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Burrow Imagining Trees
Integrating music, visual arts, language arts, history, math, and science to learn about all the characteristics of trees.  
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Visitacion Music and Graphing
Students will understand that music is a graph with time represented horizontally and pitch vertically, and that pitch going up is like an upward slope (positive) and going down like a downwards slope (negative correlation).
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Nielsen Musical Polygons
Music has a pulse, which can be counted and related to geometric shapes.
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Visitacion Pythagorean Theorem Blues
After studying the twelve bar blues form and the Pythagorean Theorem, Students will practice in pairs or triads, possibly quartets to perform a blues stanza, either of their own composition or the teacher’s about some aspect of the Pythagorean Theorem.
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Kohne Sing a Quilt
Students will understand that quilts often contain symbols and/or can be used as symbols, which can tell a story, and that quilts can be literal representations like a map, and can even represent musical rhythmic notation. Therefore, we can sing a quilt!
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Flores Sound Patterns
Students will develop an understanding of the role patterns play in music, math, visual arts, and dance.
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