Math Tunes

This is a 2 page fill-in-the-blank style movie notes for the 1959 Disney film Donald in Mathmagic Land (includes answer key). This film is 27-minutes long. Donald's goes on an adventure in which it is explained how mathematics can be useful in real life. Through this journey it is shown how numbers are more than graphs and charts, they are geometry, music and magical living things. There is also a big focus on ratios. To use in your classroom, just search on YouTube for the film "Donald in Mathm

This is a song about circles to the tune of "My House" by Flo Rida. My students and I sing this during our circles unit in geometry class. It includes the vocabulary and relationships of lines that go through circles, as well as area, circumference, arc length, sector area, and equations of circles. I also use it as a call and response when students get stuck and don't know what to do. My students have said it helps them remember on quizzes and tests. Music makes memory! Here is the main choru

This is a song about graphing systems of equations to the tune of "Best Day of My Life" by American Authors. My students and I sing this during our systems of equations unit in algebra class. I also use it as a call and response when students get stuck and don't know what to do. My students have said it helps them remember on quizzes and tests. Music makes memory! Here is the main chorus: I plot my points, connect them, Whoa-Oh Now I’m looking for the coordinates, Whoa-Oh Where 2 lines inters

This is a song about arithmetic and geometric sequences to the tune of "Blank Space" by Taylor Swift. My students and I sing this during our sequences unit in algebra class. I also use it as a call and response when students get stuck and don't know what to do. My students have said it helps them remember on quizzes and tests. Music makes memory! Here is the main chorus: Arithmetic is adding Geometric is multiplying You can’t tell me when it's over For the numbers just keep going Got a long l

This is a song about right triangle trigonometry to the tune of "Shut-Up and Dance" by Walk the Moon. My students and I sing this during our Trigonometry Unit in geometry class. I also use it as a call and response when students get stuck and don't know what to do. My students have said it helps them remember on quizzes and tests. Music makes memory! Here is the main chorus: Don’t you dare quit now It’s just trigonometry My teacher did tell me Make sure your calc’s in degree mode When using tri

This is a song about writing geometric 2-column proofs to the tune of "Last Friday Night" by Katy Perry. It also includes lyrics about line and angle relationships in geometry. My students and I sing this during our line and angles unit in geometry class, once we start writing 2- column proofs. I also use it as a call and response when students get stuck and don't know what to do. My students have said it helps them remember on quizzes and tests. Music makes memory! Here is the main chorus: O

This is a song about calculating volume and surface area to the tune of "All About that Bass" by Meghan Trainor. My students and I sing this during our volume and surface area unit in geometry class. I also use it as a call and response when students get stuck and don't know what to do. My students have said it helps them remember on quizzes and tests. Music makes memory! Here is the main chorus: Because you know it’s all about that base 'Bout that base, times height It’s all about that base

This is a song about various geometric measures to the middle to the tune of "The Middle" by Zedd, Maren Morris, Grey. My students and I sing this during our triangles and quadrilaterals units in algebra class. I also use it as a call and response when students get stuck and don't know what to do. My students have said it helps them remember on quizzes and tests. Music makes memory! Here is the main chorus: A midpoint, is found when you measure to the middle Just average the endpoints of a segm