Songs about Math?
M Buck
Hey music lovers:
I'm a teacher,doing a fun project with my algebra students:
we're coming up with
songs based on math concepts. We are twisting some popular songs into
ones that appeal to the mathematics in kids (or vice versa). For
example: the Creedence Clearwater song "2 z^3" (Oh, Two Z-cubed, Baby
I love you, 2 z-cubed) or the currently popular song "Something like a
Parabola (Phenomena)". I know it's a bit out of the usual, but anyone
got any other song ideas from the other half of their brain?
Or does anyone know any songs about math (besides "don't know much
about Algebra...")
Thanks
Myron
gon...@warwick.net
"Hip to be Square" by Huey Lewis & the News=(hip)2b˛
Earth and Sky
Well, there's always the Danny Kaye classic, Inchworm
"Two and two are four
Four and four are eight
Eight and eight are sixteen
Sixteen and sixteen are thirty-two..."
GrapeApe
Number One by The Rutles (beatles Parody)
Nothing from nothing leaves Nothing - 70s funk
I would also suggest anything off the Schoolhouse Rock collection for some
ready made and useful examples, or inspiration. (these were educational songs
on various subjects that aired on ABC saturday mornings in the Seventies)
Chris Gilbert
M Buck wrote:
> Or does anyone know any songs about math (besides "don't know much
>about Algebra...")
What about 'Inchworm' from Hans Christian Andersen, sung by Danny Kaye ?
Chris
Chris Gilbert
M Buck wrote:
> Or does anyone know any songs about math (besides "don't know much
>about Algebra...")
2 divided by zero by the Pet Shop Boys
Chris
R. Fix
There's also "New Math" by Tom Lehrer
James P Rambo jimram1compuservecom
Two Divided by Love by the Grassroots
Jim
Mitch Drumm
M Buck (myr...@american.hasharon.k12.il) wrote:
: Hey music lovers:
: Or does anyone know any songs about math (besides "don't know much
: about Algebra...")
:
bobby darin: multiplication
Andrew Virnuls
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>Two Divided by Love by the Grassroots
>Jim
"Two Divided by Zero" by the Pet Shop Boys
That awful song by Dana Dawson that goes something like:
"One and one is two
And two is me and you
One and two is three
And three is family..."
James Martinez
"Less Than Zero" ( <0 ) by Elvis Costello
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gon...@warwick.net wrote:
> M Buck wrote:
> >
> > Hey music lovers:
> > I'm a teacher,doing a fun project with my algebra students:
> > we're coming up with
> > songs based on math concepts. We are twisting some popular songs into
> > ones that appeal to the mathematics in kids (or vice versa). For
> > example: the Creedence Clearwater song "2 z^3" (Oh, Two Z-cubed, Baby
> > I love you, 2 z-cubed) or the currently popular song "Something like a
> > Parabola (Phenomena)". I know it's a bit out of the usual, but anyone
> > got any other song ideas from the other half of their brain?
> > Or does anyone know any songs about math (besides "don't know much
> > about Algebra...")
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Myron
>
> "Hip to be Square" by Huey Lewis & the News=(hip)2b²
Kirsten
"When Two and Two Are Five", the Story
"Power of Two", Indigo Girls
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B. Kim Meyer
How about "Too Low For Zero"- Elton John, and "ABC, 123," by the Jackson
Five!!
Smiles!
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On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, M Buck wrote:
> Hey music lovers:
> I'm a teacher,doing a fun project with my algebra students:
> we're coming up with
> songs based on math concepts. We are twisting some popular songs into
> ones that appeal to the mathematics in kids (or vice versa). For
> example: the Creedence Clearwater song "2 z^3" (Oh, Two Z-cubed, Baby
> I love you, 2 z-cubed) or the currently popular song "Something like a
> Parabola (Phenomena)". I know it's a bit out of the usual, but anyone
> got any other song ideas from the other half of their brain?
> Or does anyone know any songs about math (besides "don't know much
> about Algebra...")
Tom Lehrer did a song about math...I can't remember the name of it.
Adam Bernay
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Tom Lehrer has written several songs about mathematics. Some have been
recorded and some have not. The recorded ones are:
"New Math" (a subtraction problem worked out in base 10 and then in
octal), on "That Was The Year That Was".
"Lobachevsky" (about plaigarism) on "Songs of Tom Lehrer" and "Tom Lehrer
Revisited". "Songs of Tom Lehrer" has been reissued on CD as part of
"Songs and More Songs of Tom Lehrer".
"That's Mathematics" (to a tune similar to "That's Entertainment").
Available on "Dr. Demento's Basement Tapes Number 4", only by joining the
Demento Dr. Society: demento...@juno.com. Verse one of this deals
with math in general and verse two is about Andrew Wiles' solution to
Fermat's theorem. This song (a different recording) is also used on a
video that came from a San Francisco conference on Fermat's theorem.
Non-recorded: "There's a Delta For Every Epsilon", "The Professor's
Song", and "Now Then, Are There Any Questions?". Lyrics to all of these
can be found at http://www.wiw.org/~drz/tom.lehrer/index.html . Some are
to existing tunes, so they can be figured out with that knowledge.
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> > Hey music lovers:
> > I'm a teacher,doing a fun project with my algebra students:
> > we're coming up with
> > songs based on math concepts. We are twisting some popular songs into
> > ones that appeal to the mathematics in kids (or vice versa). For
> > example: the Creedence Clearwater song "2 z^3" (Oh, Two Z-cubed, Baby
> > I love you, 2 z-cubed) or the currently popular song "Something like a
> > Parabola (Phenomena)". I know it's a bit out of the usual, but anyone
> > got any other song ideas from the other half of their brain?
> > Or does anyone know any songs about math (besides "don't know much
> > about Algebra...")
Billy Preston's "Nothing from nothing"
Three Dog Night's "One (is the loneliest number)"
Commodore's "Three Times a Lady"
Mike
HeelsFans
There is a terrific CD available, "What Do You Know, Kid?" -- primarily about
science concepts, but covering some math, too (though I don't know how much
Algebra)
You can find information about it at:
http://www.hokanzee.com/main.html
The lyrics to one of the songs is:
CONSTANTS (Jeff Stambovsky)
VERSE
Everywhere you are
One and one make two
Whether you're near or far
Some things are always true
CHORUS
You know that
Water's gonna freeze
At thirty-two degrees
From Anchorage Alaska to the Florida Keys
And here's some solid advice
When it's thirty-two I'm told you'll be cold as ice
And if you give it your best try
You're bound to find out why
The area of a circle equals r-squared times pi
And pi is something you can fix
At approximately 3.1416
They're constants
And isn't it strange
That in this crazy world
Some things never change
Other phenomena abound
That scientists have found
For instance the velocities of light and of sound
And many things that you could name
Whose steady nature is their claim to fame
Because they're constants
And constants always stay the same.
Oracle
M:: There is one by the Beatles. "come together"- The lyrics go like
"... one and one and one is three .."
Cheers,
M
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In article <887215835...@dejanews.com>,(trim)
> Non-recorded:
I forgot one: "The Derivitave Song"
Lyrics to all of these
> can be found at http://www.wiw.org/~drz/tom.lehrer/index.html . Some are
> to existing tunes, so they can be figured out with that knowledge.
>
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E. Wennick
It's actually about science, not math, but this thread made me think of
a song by Moxy Fruvous called "Entropy," from the "B" Album.....
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In article <34EE4F...@sympatico.ca>,
ewen...@sympatico.ca wrote:
>
> It's actually about science, not math, but this thread made me think of
> a song by Moxy Fruvous called "Entropy," from the "B" Album.....
I beg to differ, as it's about the change in the ratio of X to Y as you
approach either axis in a curve that approaches infinity as X or Y approaches
zero.