Doggone Math

Doggone Math
Songs for Learning, Vol. 3
By Harry Guffee

Miracles can happen when music and learning are brought together. Music stirs emotion, and emotion has a powerful effect on memory; children have been singing the Alphabet Song for generations to learn their ABCs.

Students will enjoy the same results singing about math. These lyrics and melodies can become part of any childs life anywhere - in the classroom, at home, even in the car!"

Doggone Math SONG LIST

1. Subtraction Makes a Difference
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2. Reciprocals
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3. Integers
4. In All Probability
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5. Add the Opposite
6. Percent
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7. Decimal Equivalent
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8. 180 Degrees
9. On the Number Line
10. Doggone Math

Each of the following songs serves as a lyrical and musical lesson in math.

1) SUBTRACTION MAKES A DIFFERENCE
This song demonstrates how to "take the subtrahend from the minuend," reminding us that in both mathematics and life, 41 pounds just wont fit into a 40 pound bag - so take it away!

2) RECIPROCALS
Did you know that the product and its "multiplicative inverse" is always ONE? Heres a chance to sing it, say it, and use it to enrich your math vocabulary and your life.

3) INTEGERS
A "jumpin" solo improvisation on the saxophone sets the mood for us to learn a definition and some of the properties of positive and negative numbers.

4) IN ALL PROBABILITY
The excitement and primal expression of the fiddle provide the background for learning about outcomes, certainty, possibilities, and odds.

5) ADD THE OPPOSITE
Sometimes life seems to imitate algebra, especially when learning how to subtract negative numbers; its all in how you look at it.

6) PERCENT
This song uses vocabulary words based on an ancient Latin phrase to connect algorithms used to calculate percent. The timeless beauty in the voice of the saxophone sweetens the lesson.

7) DECIMAL EQUIVALENT Finding the decimal equivalent of a fraction is easy and fun to do with the help of some hot fiddle licks and the tintinnabulation of the resophonic guitar in this catchy tune.

8) 180 DEGREES
This waltz (played in three-quarter time - get it?) is a lilting ode to our three-sided friends; scalene, equilateral, and isosceles triangles will never look the same to you again.


9) ON THE NUMBER LINE Jump on board for the mathematical and musical ride of your life as the resophonic guitar and fiddle play out the oppositional roles of positive and negative numbers.

10) DOGGONE MATH
Doggone it - the dog really did eat my homework! Celebrate the experience of learning mathematics by singing and barking along with the happy tune; this canine canon; this puppy pop classic.

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