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Academic Music
Academic Music utilizes authentic music instruction to explore various math concepts. This program encourages deeper learning and provides the opportunity to reach students from every level of ability, ethnicity, and linguistic background. While music concepts and theory align with all areas of the mathematics curriculum, we focus on aligning concepts of rhythm with basic fraction concepts at the elementary level. In middle school, we align basic Jazz concepts and octaves with proportional reasoning. Both programs address the lack of engaging curriculum and teaching methodologies that support understanding of difficult math concepts at the elementary and middle school level.
OIID: music+composing+math
OIID is a unique interactive interface that allows the listener to step inside music and interact with music in an unprecedented way.
The platform allows the listener to 'deconstruct' a song down to its separate tracks/instruments for a unique individual remix - creating a new dimension to the music experience.
The OIID interface in MathScienceMusic can help students engage with mathematical problems such as fraction, geometry and algebra.
aQWERTYon: Patterns and Improvisation
The aQWERTYon (QWERTY accordion) is designed to simplify the process for improvising, learning, and making music with your computer keyboard. Play along with your favorite YouTube videos, learn music theory through our Music Theory for Bedroom Producers course in collaboration with Soundfly, or take advantage of Web MIDI and us it to play and record into your favorite digital audio workstation, such as Soundtrap.com, GarageBand, Logic, or Ableton, or as input into music notation programs like Noteflight.
Indian Rhythms and Math: rhythm, patterns, music
The Mathematical Foundations of Indian Rhythm
This series of lessons will help students learn math using visualizations and hands-on exercises based on the Karnatic rhythmic system of South India. Karnatik music involves a deep, embodied understanding of mathematical proportions, symmetry, and linear rhythmic combinations. Through exposure to these creative methods, students will gain a richer understanding of the aesthetics of mathematical principles and use multiple learning modalities to visualize, hear, and feel musical proportions, combinations, and relationships. The lessons also provide a kind of cultural immersion that helps to bolster students' understanding of how math and music are interconnected around the world.
Groove Pizza: shapes, angles, groove
The Groove Pizza is a playful tool for creating grooves using math concepts like shapes, angles, and patterns. Start working with one of the Special pizza presets and add/remove "toppings" to adjust the groove, or click on the "Shape Pizza" tab and drag various shapes onto the pizza to play with math-inspired grooves. If inspired, continue your groove over at Soundtrap.com or export it as audio.
Scratch Music: music + coding
The Scratch Music project brings together jazz and coding, using MIT’s Scratch programming environment for kids. Scratch is used by a worldwide community of children, who create their own interactive stories and games. We’ve developed new music and sound samples, jazz-themed tutorials, remixable examples, and an online design studio where children can share and collaborate as they code their own Scratch Music projects.
Everything is Awesome Scratch Puzzle Guide
Harry Potter Theme Scratch Puzzle Guide
