I found this little treasure somewhere out in the world wide web. I love the idea of incorporating songs into my Math instruction. As a student I had a teacher that always taught us through song. he had a great voice and would sometimes whip out a guitar to assist in the singing. It has been fantasy of mine to be just like him in my room. I have finally found some cool songs on this site but now I have to learn to play the guitar(lol).........
http://www.rogertaylor.com/clientuploads/documents/references/Mathsongsing-a-long.pdf
Here is an example of one of them below:
BASIC GRAPHS
WORDS BY: JOHN A. CARTER
TUNE: "CAISSONS GO ROLLING ALONG"
Come join us as we graph.
Use your arms and maybe laugh
As we review the twelve curves you know.
Quadratics, and the line,
Y's a constant, and the sine,
Y is e to the x - watch it grow,
Here's the cube and the tangent too.
Let's not forget all of the roots - square and cube and so on.
Natural log and one over x,
One on x squared is important too.
I have been a lazy teacher all break up until today when I got inspired to finish my small group math and guided reading lesson plans. I came across a strategy called the QAR method that I think will really help my students that are having trouble answering and understanding the comprehension questions that they are being faced with in 3rd grade this year. I made a nice little visual that I am going to print in color and laminate to help me as I teach this to my guided reading groups.
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