‏Jami Jorgensen is the human jukebox of quadratic equations. “Anything that’s an algorithm, I have a song for it,” said the energetic middle-school math teacher in Hayward Unified, in the east Bay ...
CHELMSFORD (CBS) -- Chelmsford Middle School students are getting a lesson in math, girl power, and music video production all in one afternoon. "I love math so much, acting, being silly, singing, and ...
The pop songs you love might feel so catchy they’re magic, but their ability to get stuck in your head isn’t fairy dust and sparkles: it’s melodic math. Music researchers use melodic math to refer to ...
A state bill may run into problems when trying to incorporate music education into middle school math classes. “In the same way that some people may not be math people, math teachers may not be music ...
There's beauty in numbers, says Andover High School math teacher Penny Carda. But how to show that to students? Where she sees echoes of music and nature in the orderly advance of prime numbers — ...
A local teacher is thinking outside of the "boom box," using music to fight classroom boredom. And he's nearly got it "beat." Lamar Queen is "king" at making arithmetic appealing and equations ...
Fullerton College’s Stephen L. Plett could simply present a sequence of problems involving fractions to his students. But why be dull when there’s harmony in numbers? The California community-college ...
Even John Lennon and Paul McCartney couldn't remember who wrote the music for In My Life. Stats to the rescue! CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author ...
Musician and composer Herbie Hancock's career has careened from straight jazz to experimental electronic music over the decades, with his surprise 1983 break-dancing hit, "Rockit," helping set the ...
It’s hard for anyone to say what music looks like, but a new mathematical approach sees classical music as cone-shaped and jazz as pyramid-like. The connections between math and music are many, from ...
Jami Jorgensen is the human jukebox of quadratic equations. “Anything that’s an algorithm, I have a song for it,” said the energetic middle-school math teacher in Hayward Unified, in the east Bay Area ...