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Rhythm, math, rhythm

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A lesson plan for grade 5 Mathematics and Music Education

Provider: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts


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This lesson from ARTSEDGE explores the relationship between rhythm and math. Students are taught to subdivide when counting in order to be rhythmically accurate. This lesson is part of a curriculum unit titled “Middle School Orchestra.”

North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

Mathematics (2004)

Grade 5

  • Goal 1: Number and Operations - The learner will understand and compute with non-negative rational numbers.
    • Objective 1.02: Develop fluency in adding and subtracting non-negative rational numbers (halves, fourths, eighths; thirds, sixths, twelfths; fifths, tenths, hundredths, thousandths; mixed numbers).
      • Develop and analyze strategies for adding and subtracting numbers.
      • Estimate sums and differences.
      • Judge the reasonableness of solutions.

Music Education (2001)

Grade 5

  • Goal 2: The learner will play on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
    • Objective 2.01: Play with pitch and rhythmic accuracy.
    • Objective 2.04: Play independent instrumental parts while others sing and/or play rhythmic, melodic, or harmonic parts.
  • Goal 5: The learner will read and notate music.
    • Objective 5.01: Read whole, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth, and dotted note and rest durations in 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, and 6/8 meters.
  • Goal 8: The learner will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and content areas outside the arts.
    • Objective 8.02: Identify ways in which the principles and subject matter of other content areas taught in the school are related to those of music.