!! I wouldn’t have guessed the US would be in first position here. I’ll mess around with this graph later!
We miss you!!
Let’s skywrite up a storm! (…and continue to workshop the language, since now I’m mixing metaphors)
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YES. And maybe adding in some markings for drums and downbeats. I saw some sheet music today that had a measure in 9/8 time!
NEW BLOG POST "Fraction Intervention: Sonata for Eighth Notes in E Flat Major" jennalaib.wordpress.com/2024/04/24/f... Music is so math-y! (And vice-versa!) Some 7th graders and I used our knowledge of fraction operations to translate sheet music to fraction bars on polypad.
As seventh graders and I worked to translate sheet music into fraction bar form on Polypad, we made connections with lots of topics from our work on fractions.
We just finished up a third grade unit where the final lessons are linking multiplication and division in a toy store context. (How much for 6 packages of 3 tennis balls, how many packages of 5 yo-his can we buy, etc) The teacher was like, “eh,” but I have a new appreciation for it!
Right?! I had a few colleagues push back on this, but I think we should offer more quotative scenarios in the elementary grades. I find myself tracking it now.
NEW BLOG POST “A Tale of Two Division Contexts” After my last blog post — talking with a Grade 3 class about division involving zero — my father reached out to me with another way to think about it. It reminded me of some work I did last fall. jennalaib.wordpress.com/2024/04/17/a...