Rasa Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Dear creative math teachers, I am looking for resources (ideally, open-and-go) connecting music and fractions for a 4th grader. I would like to breathe some life into fractions. My daughter is at grade level in math and a passionate musician (a strong player and a fairly advanced violin student), but I am not sure that she sees and appreciates the connection between her math and music studies. Many thanks in advance! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maize Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 See if your library has Pythagorus and the Ratios Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maize Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 https://www.amazon.com/Pythagoras-Ratios-Adventure-Julie-Ellis/dp/1570917760 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earthmerlin Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Listening in as my daughter is a pianist & currently studying fractions at school too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HomeAgain Posted December 6, 2017 Share Posted December 6, 2017 Donald In Mathemagic Land touches on it in the beginning. Right Start level D has a page or two for the connection. My violin player really enjoyed that worksheet. I'm not sure if following books have it, but it was at least in there once. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KSinNS Posted December 8, 2017 Share Posted December 8, 2017 The most obvious connection is note length-whole note, half note, quarter note, eighth note, 16th notes, 1/32nd notes. Triplets too (1/3 of a quarter), and you're all set. Maybe do some clapping. To be honest, my kids either got this intuitively or struggled terribly. Those that struggled found more concrete representations (toast, fruit, etc. more meaningful). I have an 11 year old, who is great with math and a lovely musician, and ask her to relate an eighth note to a quarter, and she's done. TiTi Ta she gets. The string ratios are also fun and somewhat easy to do on a violin. Spend some time playing with harmonics (the first is at the middle of the string, the second is at the 3/4 point, the harmonics at a 5th are also in fractional positions two-thirds, I think, but I can't remember exactly). You can also figure out most of the notes by dividing strings (though this gets more deeply into ratios, which may not be where you want to go). Enjoy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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