Sunday, November 17, 2013

Collaboration Canvas

When I found out that I had to make a remixed canvas I knew that I didn't want to chose the obvious choice of physics. So instead I chose music because, as much as people know that math and music are related, I feel like it is often something that is overlooked and could help students make a connection between what they are doing in the classroom and what they are doing in real life. First, though, I had to find a music lesson that I knew I could incorporate math into and make it age appropriate as well. There was no point in talking about subgroups of note sets if the subject of sets is barely even covered until linear algebra. That is when I found the topics of triads. By connecting musical triads to mathematical triads I can help students explore the Pythagorean theorem, and also give them an idea on how it relates to the real world and the music they listen to. By extending this to the topic of musical structure I can help them "hear" conditional probability. Coupling this with a video and some outside sources I hope show the relationship between math and music.

Linked here is the original canvas
Linked here is my remixed canvas