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Seeing Music, Hearing Waves
In this music activity, 11th graders incorporate fractions into their music scales and counting scales. They listen to the music being played and relate it to sine waves reviewing the trig function. There are 11 questions involving sine...
Curated OER
Mathematical Models with Applications: The Sounds of Music
Students use an electronic data-collection device to model the sound produced by a guitar string. They identify the graph of a periodic situation and use the graph to determine the period and frequency of sound waves.
Curated OER
Amazing Fibonacci
Students integrate the patterns of Fibonacci into music. In this geometry lesson plan, students apply the concepts of recursion, pattern and Phi or Golden Ratio to composing and playing music on various instruments. They lesson plan is...
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About Scotland: Pythagoras: Music and Space
A study on Pythagoras and how he used geometry to explain parts of music, including harmony, proportion, and space.