Welcome back to our series featuring Homeschool Resources: Online Video Math Curriculum & FREE, interactive math and music activities. I would like to ask you to check out these resources for Math and let me know if you’ve used these resources with your students.
MathHelp.com is a popular online video math curriculum that covers Pre-Algebra, Algebra I & II, Geometry as well as PSAT/NMSQT, SAT, and ACT math test prep, and access to tutoring for 5th and 6th-grade math.
PhilTulga.com: Music Through The Curriculum – Ingenious Music & Math Activities!– All Grades, with parental supervision
Phil Tulga is a professional musician and music instructor. He has developed educational programs that weave music through the curriculum in almost every subject. As a complement to his music programs, Phil has developed a series of FREE, interactive math and music activities that are available on his website.
When you get to the site you will see a menu that includes:
- Math and Science – Phil takes popular math manipulatives and enhances them with rhythm and music. You’ll find:
- Unifix Cube Drum Machine – This shows students how famous composers have used repeating patterns to create music. Students can make their own rhythm or drum patterns with popular Unifix cubes.
- Musical Fraction Bars – Mathematicians like Pythagoras discovered that musical pitches are derived from fractions. In this activity, students compose and play their own songs using Musical Fraction Bars. Not only that, you’ll find instructions for how to build a homemade musical instrument that is based on these fractions.
- Pattern Block Rock – Song melodies are patterns of short and long sounds. In this activity, students compose and play their own rhythmic songs using geometric shapes.
After exploring the math activities check out the “Language Arts” section. Get Phil’s tips for how to encourage a love of reading in your child. Then, use the innovative “Cucumber Pickle Machine” to show your kids how to make rhythmic meters by combining two and three-syllable words! Phil uses the musical score of “Peter and the Wolf” to teach storyline components complete with story maps!
Don’t miss “Homemade Instruments” where you’ll find directions for making your own panpipes, water bottle xylophone, tubular Glockenspiel, and melodic tube drums!
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
