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Numeracy development through Music and Play

Musical Materials for the on line lesson of 

You can find the online lecture here:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj8_hI2DcGI&t=1405s

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or at the end of this lesson

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Music, a composition of patterns, creates in our mind links that suits other "pattern activity" like math or chess and it improves abstract thinking.  

The advantage of music is that it links cognitive growth to social and emotional development, symbolic and metaphoric representation, and qualitative judgment.
 

There are different ways to integrate Math with music:  

Learning songs in which you find counting,  ordering and  representation of time  

Dancing to a song and learning the sequence and the pattern of the movements  

Referring to the structure of Music or Song

Counting the beats at a certain part of the melody and reacting to a specific one.

Learning the Numeral value of the rhythm notes.

Experimenting with Number concepts through music  can include the following concepts:

  • Counting

  • Comparing

  • Representing of quantities

  • Addition

  • Dividing into equal groups

  • Experiencing the half

  • Repeating patterns

  • Number conservation

  • Part and a whole

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let's practice

Practicing Math and Music with the Ants song:

Please watch the following video and write to yourself the mathematical topics that this song includes .

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With the ants song's activity, the children practice the following concepts:

  • Grouping

  • A repeating  pattern  + a transformation

  • Addition

  • Comparing

  • Part and whole

  • Spatial orientation

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Suggestions for furthur  activites with this song​

Once the kids know the song very well:
  • Ask one of the “ants “  to be the little ant and leave the group, according to the song’s words: this will demand that group  to calculate  and invite one more ants to their line in the next verse.
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  •  Start  the activity  from the whole group and let them divide into the groups, according to the song’s words
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  • You can integrate this song with a study about the ants and you can use this song to improve  the class social atmosphere
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about the beat

About the musical beat 

Please watch  the  following  video ;
All of those hundreds of people did not speak with each other and yet they clap their hands at the same pace, how does this happen?
It happened because all of those people felt the beat and clapped the beat
Can you clap the beat with the ants song, try it with the following song video
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The rhythm notes

The rhythm notes

The rhythm musical notation explain to us how many sounds we will produce in each beat and in this lesson we will learn the following two notes:

Ta is 1 sound 
in a length of 1 beat
In order to play Ta,we will ask the children to clap their hands once

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Hus which is one silent beat
In order to play Hus,we will ask the children to open their hands quietly once
In order to  print cards with Ta and Hus, please touch the following paperclip symbol 

Print  me

We arrange the beats in equal groups which we call Bars.

Each bar has one vertical line at the beginning and one vertical line at the end

Here are  5 different bars with 2 representatives of one beat:Ta and Hus

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  • When you read the different bars, clap your hand once for each Ta and open your hand once silently for each Hus.

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  • Calculate how many beats are in each bar?-4

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  • How many silent beats in each bar?It depends on the number of Hus in the bar

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  • How many sounds do we hear in each bar?-It depends on the number of Ta in each bar!

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If you want to print those bars, please touch the next paperclip 

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Print  me

After printing the rhythm notes cards, you can ask your children to assemble different rhythm bars of 4 beats.
For the lines of the bars, you can  use chopsticks or popsicle stick
After the children assemble a bar, please ask them to :
Read the bar.
Clap the bar or play it with a drum or other percussion instrument.
Say how many beats are in that bar?
Say how many Ta and how many Hus are in that bar?
How many sounds did the child make while playing that bar ?
rhythmic score

The rhythmic score

The rhythmic score gives you direction for adding percussion instruments or body percussion to playi with the song or the music
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Print  me

For printing the ants song rhythmic score, please touch the papaerclip  

How to play the score? 

At the beginning of each line you  see the symbol for the musical instrument which plays that line!

In this score you see symbols of the following body percussions:clapping, knee tapping and stamping feet 

Please watch the rhythm score's tutoring video for the teacher

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After you as a teacher, learnt to conduct the score, ask you children to:

Read the score without music.

Play the score without music.

Play the score together with the music.

Playing in 3 groups:

Divide the class into 3 groups:

One will clapp, one will tap their knees and one will stomp their feet-Do it first without music and then add the music.

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Once the class knows the score, you can ask your children to change the  pattern of  score's bars and play it by their ideas

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study of the ants

The ants study

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I recommand to integrate the ants song with a study about the ants and stories about the ants.

Here are some  information and videos for your help

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please go to:

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https://kidskonnect.com/animals/ant/

http://www.123homeschool4me.com/2012/10/bug-unit-1-ants.html

 

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online lesson

You are invited to watch our online lesson again

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